Nimesh cultural studies technoculture and risks 222222222
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2. introduction
• Contemporary critical has had to negotiate
with the with massive environmental disaster,
industrial disaster, 9/11 and other cataclysmic
events.
• Much contemporary theory examines the role
such events play in culture. One of the most
influential of such theories is that of Risk
society.
3. example
• PC
• NOTICE that both risks and solution are embedded
in the same system.
• Do you see the use of technology as risky, and that
same technology asks you to buy more perfection
to avoid risks???
Risk: ‘ Virus’, “ illegal operation’, ‘corruption of hard disc and so on.
Solution: contact the help centre, download anti- virus, update
your PC etc
5. Definition:
A Risks society is a society
increasingly
preoccupied with the
future ( and also with
the safety) which
generates the notion of
Risk.
- Anthony Giddens
6. “A Risk society is a systematic way of dealing with
hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by
modernization itself” – ULRICH BECK
7. Risk Society: towards a new Modernity
(1992)
-ULRICH BECK
As soon as risks became real they become
disaster.
Example: Indian Cricket Batting line up
‘RISKS ARE POTENTIAL DISASTERS’
8. TECHNOCULTURE in everyday life
We live in increasingly
technolosized world.
Everyday life Shopping
to Education depends
heavily on technology.
Communication- mobile
Online shopping
Entertainment
Access of information
commerce
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12. Technological threats
Weapons of mass destruction
9/11 attack, other terrorist attack
These threats are solved using more
technological systems and machines, which
in turn generates more risks.
15. • Risk of releasing confidential informations (
credits cards, residential address etc)
• Moral panics about childrens
• Cyberstalk
16. Beck begins by ‘suggesting that technoscience in industrial
society has generated numerous dangers.
Industrial society is based on the production and distribution
of goods which are required to fill the ‘scarcity’ within
society.
Society is based on scarcity and the removal of scarcity can
handle goods and needs only when they catualize, as
‘visible’.
Such a system can not handle the risks and hazards of
industrial production and dustribution.
But as long as risk is secondary to scarcity or needs industrial
society has no problems.