Techne
According to Heidegger, this is what technology reveals about humanity.
What is the truth?
Although he is discouraged from visiting the island of Polyphemus by his crew, Odysseus insists on doing so because of his desire for this.
What is presents?
Henri Bergson believed the attitudes, gestures and movements of the human body are laughable because they remind us of this.
What are machines?
More’s Utopia was partly inspired by the atrocious laws in England at the time against these people
What are thieves?
This test allowed bounty hunters helped determine whether someone is human or an android.
What is the Voight Kampff Test
For Heidegger, the fundamental piece of inventory of the technological standing reserve is this.
What is nature?
Much of Odysseus's use of cunning to get himself and crew out of difficult situations relies on this rhetorical device.
What are lies?
This technology - which inspires Demosthenes to devise his plan in The Knights - provides a great source of the humour in the play.
What is wine?
This test allowed bounty hunters helped determine whether someone is human or an android.
What is the Voight Kampff Test?
Despite being a chickenhead, this character would be considered very human due to his reaction when Pris pulls the legs off his spider.
Who is John Isadore
Both Plato and Aristotle wrote about virtues as a form of technology. For Plato, this is the most important one.
What is prudence?
Technology can be used subjectively or objectively. Odysseus's approach to techne is most often this.
Wat is subjective?
The Knights takes issue with the Odyssey by poking fun at this.
What is the Gods [or oracles - will take either.]
Post World War Terminus, earth is a dystopian society with multiple realities. In one of them, inhabitants are required to share Wilbur Mercer’s martyrdom by hooking up to this device.
What is the Empathy Box?
One of the best features that characterizes Frankenstein’s creature as human is this, which the creature openly discusses at the end of the novel.
What is remorse?
For Plato, techne is essentially teleological and disinterested. That is, the end for which the craftsperson acts is unrelated to this
What is her/his advantage?
Though Odysseus is often praised for his techne, truth be told he would likely not have been successful on his journey without this.
What is assurance from the Gods [Athena]?
The following quote from Kafka's In the Penal Colony, draws on this Bergsonian feature to provide comic relief: "It's a remarkable piece of apparatus," said the officer to the explorer and surveyed with a certain air of admiration the apparatus which was after all quite familiar to him."
What is exaggeration.
According to Louis Marin, Utopia can never be located because it exists here.
What is the place of the gap?
Shelley's work was inspired by this new system developed to bring life into corpses temporally using electricity.
What is Galvanism?
Aristotle believed that all technology is thought to aim at some good, which he defined as this.
Odysseus is often compared to a God, and receives assistance from the Gods (Athena in particular) in much of his journey. His godlike proximity can be said to be derived from this hallmark of cosmic potentiality.
What is complementarity?
This technology in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is used to draw attention to the human dependence on emotions.
What is the mood organ?
By having torture as the centre, from which viewers are encouraged to witness it from the periphery as a sort of spectacle, the penal colony's machine simulate this device, but in reverse.
What is a panopticon?
Although perhaps initially inspired to create the creature because of his mother's early death, this is Victor Frankenstein's true motivation.
What is excessive pride [hubris]?