Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information AgeBy uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments. Hershock urges reinvention of the technological wheel, and, at the same time, acknowledges the need for new forms of practice suited to our rapidly evolving social, political, and economic circumstances. His persuasive presentation urges the skillful spinning of a new wheel of the dharma. |
Contents
Technology and the Biasing of Conduct Establishing the Grammar of Our Narrative | 3 |
Primordial Technology in the Drama of Childhood | 4 |
Freedom as a Dialectic of Projecting Self and Objecting World | 8 |
The Canons of Freedom and Moral Transparency In Technology and the Media We Trust | 19 |
The Imagined Neutrality of Technology | 20 |
Individual Freedom and the Obdurate Objecting World | 27 |
Just Saying No to the Logic of Choice | 32 |
Technology as Savior Its Getting Better Better All the Time | 35 |
The Meaningless Politics of Generic Democracy | 156 |
Narcissism and Nihilism The Atrophy of Dramatic Attention and the End of Authentic Materialism | 161 |
The Imperative Splitting of the Nuclear Self | 162 |
Nothing Really Matters Anymore Not Even Matter | 165 |
Iconography and the End of Materialism | 166 |
The Iconic Roots of Boredom | 169 |
Deepening the New Lock Groove | 176 |
The CommodityDriven Translation of Desiring into Wanting | 181 |
The Original Broken Promise | 39 |
Toward an Ethics of Resistance | 52 |
The Direction of Technical Evolution A Different Kind of Caveat | 55 |
Advantaging ExistenceLiving Apart and at a Distance | 56 |
The Corporation as Technology | 61 |
The New Colonialism From an Ignoble Past to an Invisible Future | 67 |
The Colonial Method | 68 |
The Evolution of Colonial Intent into the Development Objective and Beyond | 73 |
The Colonization of Consciousness | 79 |
Pluralism versus the Commodification of Values | 87 |
Is There a Universal Technological Path? | 94 |
Independent Values the Value of Independence and the Erosion of Traditions | 99 |
Appreciative Virtuosity The Buddhist Alternative to Control and Independence | 105 |
A New Copernican Revolution | 106 |
The Character of Buddhist Technologies | 111 |
The Case of Healing | 116 |
A Matter of Will or the Fruit of Offering? | 125 |
Practicing the Dissolution of Wanting | 129 |
Concentrating Power Are Technologies of Control Ever Truly Democratic? | 137 |
Control and the Conflicts of Advantage | 138 |
Mediated Control and the Democratic Process | 142 |
The Societal Nature of a Controlling Advantage | 146 |
A Case History of Technical Dilemma | 150 |
The New Meaning of Biography The Efficient Self in Calculated Crisis | 187 |
The New Grammar and Vocabulary of I Am | 189 |
Controlling Time and Misguiding Attention | 192 |
The Infertility of Expert Mind | 195 |
An Expert Inversion | 198 |
The Commodification of Dramatic Meaning | 204 |
The Law of the Postmodern Jungle | 209 |
Consuming Self Consumed Community | 213 |
Changing Minds in an Age of Lifestyle Choices | 222 |
The Digital Age and the Defeat of Chaos Attentive Modality the Media and the Loss of Narrative Wilderness | 229 |
Disparities in the Metaphysics of Meaning | 231 |
Disparate Modes of WorldMaking | 235 |
The Numerology of Rational Values | 238 |
Suffering Alone Together | 245 |
Mediation and Mediocrity | 248 |
Media and the Declining Narrativity of Popular Culture | 255 |
The Mediated Wilderness | 258 |
The Density of Postmodern Time and Space and the Craving for Volume | 265 |
So What? | 271 |
Bibliography | 289 |
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