By Levi R. Bryant
Onto-Cartography supplies an unapologetic security of naturalism and materialism, remodeling those wide-spread positions and displaying how tradition itself is shaped via nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological thought of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems that could in basic terms be understood by means of contemplating nonhuman fabric corporations reminiscent of rivers and mountain levels along signifying firms resembling discourses, narratives, and ideologies. during this approach, Bryant lays the principles for a brand new machine-oriented ontology.
This theoretically omnivorous paintings attracts on disciplines as various as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, media experiences, object-oriented ontology, the recent materialist feminisms, actor-network idea, biology, and sociology. via its clean consciousness to nonhumans and fabric being, it additionally presents a framework for integrating the main useful findings of severe concept and social constructivism.
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For example, it is often suggested that lungs did not originally serve the function of breathing, but rather served as air filled flotation devices for various organisms. Similarly, black powder transitioned from being used to fire guns and cannons to blasting rocks in mines. We can think of the history of technology as a history of exaptations where the potencies of various technologies are explored and problems that emerge when those technologies are put to new use arise and call for resolutions.
The camera extends vision allowing us to see that which is not present, and so on. A machine functions as a medium for another machine when it is structurally coupled to another machine, extending its powers and capacities in some way. We can see just how broadly McLuhan expands the concept of media, giving it a much deeper ontological significance than it is often taken to have. Often when we think of media we immediately think of things such as newspapers, television, music, etc. While these are indeed examples of media, McLuhan expands the notion to include everything from forks to seeing eye dogs.
Birds can engage in activities to distract predators from their chicks. Dogs, dolphins, octopuses, humans, institutions, and certain technologies are capable of learning. Cognitive machines differ from simple animate machines in that they are intentionally goal-directed. Again, these distinctions can overlap and there are all sorts of differences in degree between these different types of machine. Dolphins, for example, are both cognitive machines and animate machines. They are capable of learning and acting based on goals, and are therefore cognitive machines.