In an age of high tech, our experience of technology has changed
tremendously, yet the definition of technology has remained largely
unquestioned. High Techne redresses this gap in thinking about
technology, examining the shifting relations of technology, art,
and culture from the beginnings of modernity to contemporary
technocultures.
Drawing on the Greek root of technology (techne, generally
translated as "art, skill, or craft"), R. L. Rutsky challenges both
the modernist notion of technology as an instrument or tool and the
conventional idea of a noninstrumental aesthetics. Today,
technology and aesthetics have again begun to come together: even
basketball shoes are said to exhibit a "high-tech style" and the
most advanced technology is called "state of the art." Rutsky
charts the history and vicissitudes of this new high-tech techne up
to our day -- from Fritz Lang to Octavia Butler, Thomas Edison to
Japanese Anime, constructivism to cyberspace.
Progressing from the major art movements of modernism to
contemporary science fiction and cultural theory, Rutsky provides
clear and compelling evidence of a shift in the cultural
conceptions of technology and art and demonstrates the centrality
of technology to modernism and postmodernism.
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