International Journal in IT & Engineering
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 11

A response to the Enframing nature of modern technology

  • Author:
  • Anthony Ichuloi
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 17 to 30

Lecturer, Mount Kenya University, Kenya

Online published on 27 February, 2018.

Abstract

The objective of this article is to reflect on the ontological solutions to the transcendental problems of modern technology underlined in my previous publications. My claim is that solutions to the transcendental and reconstituting power of modern technology should, above all, be ingrained in the human subject's self-understanding and not merely on technical experts. The think piece of this claim is that even though the problems of technology overwhelm the individual human subject, it does not necessarily imply that she remains a helpless victim on the face of technology; there is always a way forward. Recourse to ontological responses to the transcendental, manipulative powers of technology is all about bringing technology back home, to the genuine meaning it was originally intended to have, which is to disclose nature as meaningful, and to serve human purposes.

Keywords

Enframing, Transcendental problems, ontological solutions