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-Enlightenment thinking of rationalitaion and the valorization of the indivdual -- ok?
-([Coyne, 1995, p. 2](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) AI implications
-This first account of disruption, this technology-driven rhetoric,
-has most force where we hold to the philosophical position of ra-
-tionalism or Enlightenment thinking, with its valorization of the
-individual, principle, and reason. Another characterization of this
-account is to describe it as modern, continuing the Enlightenment
-project of applying reason instead, supposedly, of relying on author-
-ity or succumbing to prejudice. Rationalism presents us with a range
-of legacies, each of which appears to be somehow challenged by IT.
-The autonomy of the individual and the notion of originality are
-challenged by technologies of mass production and mechanical and
-electronic reproduction. Whereas the rationalist legacy suggests that
-truth resides in the correspondence between a sign (such as a word
-or gesture) and the signified (the entity we are pointing out), mod-
-ern electronic communications, the mass media, and computer im-
-agery, present us with the difficulty of discerning what is referring
-to what. Whereas rationalism supports the notion that human intel-
-ligence resides in individuals and is based in rule, computers are
-shown to manipulate rules faster and more precisely than we can.
-How important then is the individual? Rationalism suggests that the
-world can be described completely and ultimately through unified
-theories. Now there are computer systems that are purported to
-([Coyne, 1995, p. 3](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) is this a critique of metaphysics or simply Kant's point, to question these categories?
-([Coyne, 1995, p. 3](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) so a shifting but still new ground?
-The second account of disruption pays little heed to the machina-
-tions of the moderns. This is the account of Nietzsche, Heidegger,
-Derrida, and the postmoderns.1 For the postmoderns, the current
-disruption is the realization and working out of the end of metaphys-
-ics (logocentrism). Humankind has always been confronted with un-
-certainty, changing values, and accommodating new technologies.
-But putting an end to metaphysics is a relatively recent project in the
-west-arguably around one hundred years old. The project comes to
-light most cogently in the writings of Derrida and the poststructural-
-ists. Derrida's main project is to detect and go beyond logocentric
-argumentation, especially among those who claim most fervently to
-have abandoned it.
-([Coyne, 1995, p. 3](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) yes, there is no ground is a metaphyscial assertion...  and so our multview of metaphysics may represent this postmodern view.
-If metaphysics is the quest for the ground, postmodernism does
-not simply deny that there is a ground (to deny ground is simply
-relativism) but attempts to exorcise its own rhetoric, and that of its
-progenitors, of the metaphysical (logocentric), the need for either
-ground or nonground. To assert that there is no ground is itself a
-metaphysical assertion. Postmodern rhetoric is therefore character-
-ized by a restlessness-no sooner establishing foundations than re-
-moving them. There is an attempt to work out a nonmetaphysical
-view of the topic at hand-language, literature, art, science, culture,
-theology, technology, design, and so on-and as I will show here in
-relation to information technology.
-([Coyne, 1995, p. 4](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) that we live in a changing world and IT will challenge us is a modern metaphysics
-([Coyne, 1995, p. 4](zotero://select/groups/5700439/items/4BLYV8T8)) dialectic to key oppositions in play between opposites...
-The postmodern project against metaphysics is well represented
-in Derrida's strategy of deconstruction. Deconstruction is an argumen-
-tative strategy to unsettle and challenge metaphysics (logocentrism).
-It can be seen as an extension of the dialectical principle of the pre-
-Socratics and of Eckhart, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger though
-the principle is extended through the metaphor of play. The dialec-
-tical principle is to keep the interaction between opposites in play.4
-The deconstructive position has also been labeled radical hermeneutics
-by Caputo and Gallagher.5 Deconstruction seizes on the various op-
-positions that are assumed within intellectual inquiry and makes dev-
-astating play of their inversion, reversal, and demolition.
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-readings.Title       : Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor.
-readings.Authors     : Coyne, R
-readings.Year        : 1995
-readings.Link        : https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2373.001.0001
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