[Geowanking] Critical Theory

[Sean.Gorman at fortiusone.com]

"I only do this because there are still so many problems that need this technology applied to them"

I'd argue that makes you a positivist.  If you were a post modernist you would have to talk about how using technology to solve these problem disenfranchises the proletariat and further reinforces the corporate hegemonic order because they control access to the technology ;-)

If anything the discussion is an excuse to use big vocabulary words for no real apparent reason.  

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Keown" <AlanKeown at southernphone.com.au>
To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 7:48:25 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Critical Theory

Sean,
>p.s. if this is terribly droll and too off topic for folks happy to take it
>off line

I, for one, find this discussion interesting. Eric's comment: "I think it's
too easy for a computer-based discussion to remain too technology-centric"
hits the nail on the head.

While not wanting to discount the "entertainment value" of the GeoWeb, nor
the people who make a living from it, I only do this because there are still
so many problems that need this technology applied to them... I never
realised that made me a post-modernist. ;-)

Cheers
AlanK




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