CTS - Seminar 2 - based on 'Technology Will Liberate Us'

This seminar was a follow up of the second Lecture which was title 'Technology will liberate us'.

We discussed further the key points o the lecture and tried to get an idea of how much we understood and and grasped and then expanded on it.

- The original and the copy - which is which - philosophical argument

- Thw way in which technology creates situations where the authority of someone or something can be questioned.

- Copy challenges the original

We then split into smaller groups to read through and analyse given sections of critical essay written by Walter Benjamin.

Given sections were 4,5 and 6.

Section 4

- if you take the piece of art out of the context it was meant to be seen in it becomes a coy of its original state...

challenges the broad meaning of it from spiritual - popular culture

Section 5

- things become art when technology & society surpass it. I.E. painting portraits was surpassed by the camera and photographing peoples portraits and so on.

Section 6

- exhibition value - Magazines, Ad, Etc

- Cult value - loved ones

- Politics/ Ideology