10th weekly classes (Tue6, Thu8 Nov) - Summary and Comment after class about "what kind of history?"

* This weekly summary *

We are going to learn about history of new media for next two weeks. This week is first week. We learned teleological accounts of new media and modernist concept of progress. We checked various opinions of several scholars about new media teleology. And at thursday, We concentrated on the modernist concept about new media.

* This weekly my comment *

1. Teleological accounts of new media
Teleology is philosophical concept. This is in antagonism to mechanism. Teleology is the philosophical opinion what all things in the world are controlled by purpose. The author of this book says all inventions like fax machine through satellite and mobile phone are instruments for use.
Jay Bloter and Richard Grusin introduced Remediation which is composed of im-mediacy and hyper-mediacy.
It is very hard to understand teleology. Several philosophers(Spinoza, Descartes) denied every teleologies. Generally Science field rejects teleology and explains a truth and a rule objectively.

2. New media and the modernist concept of progress.
Picasso is a modernist and Duchamp is a person in avant-garde. Modernist and avant-garde is different. Modernist still respects tradition but avant-garde do not respect tradition.
I was interested in the part of pictorialists. They worked to make a photo look like a picture because No one approved their work. But now Photography is a part of art. I think picture and photography is very different. They have been developed and will have been developing very differently.