Naslov
Dispersion of Meaning : The Fading Out of the Doctrinaire World?

Autori
Meštrović, Matko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Autorske knjige, ostalo, znanstvena

Izdavač
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Grad
Newcastle upon Tyne

Godina
2008

Stranica
183

ISBN
9781847184122

Ključne riječi
art and technology relationship

Sažetak
This book present interdisciplinary research in the social sciences and humanities by connecting seemingly disparate sources through a sensitivity to endangered human values. It links reflections on the contemporary relationship between art and technology in a post-modern context, seeing art in terms of crossing boundaries and exploring virtuality. It deals with the consequences of economics colonising other disciplines, in terms of the processes by which the “ social” becomes the “ economic” . Using Jantsch’ s evolutionary paradigm, the concept of self-transcendence is seen as crucial for the understanding of human beings and their social systems. Incorporating recent thinking from the natural sciences, the learning process can be conceived as the life and activity of all complex systems, including those once conceived as organisms, machines, cultures or economies. Without the societal embrace of scientific and technological development no collective or individual meaning can be assigned to the production of new knowledge. The book seeks to recognise the point where a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity, and where the shift from the hegemony of material labour to immaterial labour becomes fundamental. The author brings new understandings of art, the social, and technology together, based on the idea that history is not a story told in separate physical, social and spiritual spaces and that the most fundamental problem of today is how to find some shared meaning in a fractured world.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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Ekonomija

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