107th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Black Box

The Digital Pharmakon: The Poisonous/Potential of Partial Determinism

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Randall Teal

Our tools have always been, necessarily, both powerful and poisionous, in part, becasue tool ontology is an ontology of partial determinism. That is, the strength of the tool is such that it focuses a particular interaction with the world, which unlocks otherwise unavailable potentials; itdoes this by way of exclusion, and thus partly determines its own ends. This power/poison lies at the heart of the digital pharmakon.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.92

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0