(32.) Goodyear, "From
Technophilia to Technophobia." Additionally, art historian Pamela Lee has investigated this shift in the sixties from
technophilia to technophobia.
The first cycle consisted of a series of four sessions (3) in which researchers and teachers initially discussed ICT, ICT in education, technophobes and
technophilias as well as ICT challenges for education in the 21st century.
Doane, Mary Anne 1990: '
Technophilia: Technology, Representation and the Feminine'.
While the Air Force's passion for technology is almost universally acknowledged, disagreements persist as to whether this
technophilia is absolute or contingent on manned participation.
The third section, on "Hard and Soft Machines," includes essays that openly scrutinize Futurist
technophilia. Borrowing ideas introduced by the French epistemologist Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989), we can describe this new sensibility as a reversal of the habitual connotations of Futurist art as a mimetic relation with technology and an apology of the machine.
The most interesting of these are Franz Richard Behrens, whose futurist
technophilia helped him develop a more constructivist style, and Otto Nebel, whose collage-text 'Zuginsfeld' (written in 1918-19, while he was a POW in Colsterdale) is one of the better texts of post-war 'Wortkunst', inviting comparison with Karl Kraus's Die letzten Tage der Menschheit.
Die 'Werk are not everybody's cup of tea - to lovers of melody, a mesmerising monotony of Teutonic
technophilia; to cloth-eared oafs, a dog-bothering bombardment of quacks and clicks - but rather wonderfully, and befitting a band that tours with nothing more than four laptops and a plug adapter, Kraftwerk have made their entire recorded output available for you to enjoy free, at kraftwerk.com.
If the pastoral no longer requires the geographic borders it once did, if not only shepherds but the entire rural landscape can be abandoned for a bodiless experience, if the nostalgic reverence for simpler times can either coexist with or be entirely jettisoned in favor of a futuristic
technophilia, the parameters of the genre in its move to cyberspace have indeed been radically transformed to fit the narrative needs of cyberculture.
As Geoff Sharp noted in the previous issue, it is quite possible that a Rudd government will see its role as the extension of a series of hi-tech initiatives, as part of the
technophilia which Barry Jones and others have made a central feature of Labor.
Energy without entropy is the ultimate
technophilia.
However, it is also deeply imbued with the country's love affair with technology, to the point where the
technophilia encourages serious strategic misassessment.
Technophilia and nature religion: the growth of a paradox.