WEEK 2 Views:
Bookchin, Murray: Ecology of Freedom, Ed Altamira, Buenos Aires, 1993.
Mumford, Lewis: "Techniques authoritarian and democratic", in Revista Anthropos N º 14, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bApril 1989.
Questions:
1) What is, according to Bookchin, the crucial factor of differentiation between technical "libertarian" or "organic" and technical "authoritarian"? (Why does Bookchin, for example, which does not speak of "harsh techniques" and "soft skills"?)
2) Why Bookchin criticizes the concept of "democratic art", in Mumford, and prefers to talk about "technical libertarian" or "organic"?
3) What is the technical definition of Munford of democratic and authoritarian technics, and what could have responded to the argument Mumford Bookchin?
4) What are the differences between the "good life" in ancient Greece and the "good life" as we understand it today?
5) What does "work" the modern mind? What, in this sense, the core of Bookchin's critique of Marx?
6) What does it mean to have "free time" today, and how it relates to the distinction between "freedom to work" and "freedom to work" spoken of Bookchin?
7) Explain the following phrases Bookchin:
"The images of modern technical invention are rooted in the epistemology of power, thanks to a specific form of knowing the world, thanks to a form that finds its apotheosis in industrial agriculture, mass production and bureaucracy. "
" Before the machine are perfected, sensibilities began organizing exhibitions, relationships, values \u200b\u200band goals around a cosmic company for mechanization of the world. "
" The factory did not introduce another new primitive that abstraction, rationalization and objectification of labor, and its embodiment in humans. Without adding any engine or machine to what already exists. But there was a new technique that replaced the old: the art of surveillance, with its soulless intensification of work and the introduction of fear and insecurity. "
" Leaving aside all the arrangements had to put at your service, technical achievement largest factory was in the technique of administration. "
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