The Role of Intimacy in the Evolution of Technology


	The Role of Intimacy in the Evolution of Technology

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2-3-2008 9:02 AM

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Technology</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jetpress.org/v17/tomasi.htm"><P align="center" class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Alessandro Tomasi<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jetpress.org/v17/tomasi.htm"><P class="MsoBodyText"><B>
	<SPAN lang="EN-US">Abstract<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></SPAN></B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jetpress.org/v17/tomasi.htm"><SPAN lang="EN-US">In this
article, Georges Bataille’s notion of intimacy will be re-interpreted to show
that it has a role to play in the evolution of technology. The specifically
human form of intimacy can be experienced through the successful adoption of
technological devices that have the qualities necessary to fit in and work out
in our life context. If they manage to become part of our life, then we
experience them as projections of our psychophysical personality, and, as such,
they escape our positing, objectifying consciousness. Intimacy can be seen as
the organizing principle that shapes the evolution of technology towards an
ideal end that promises at least an approximation to the absolute intimacy that
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