#langdonwinner — Public Fediverse posts

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LangdonWinner #Marketing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LangdonWinner #Marketing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LangdonWinner #Marketing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

> Education: The transfer of knowledge from point A to point B through the most efficient, low-cost link possible.

Satire in 2017. I wonder if anyone has gotten VC money or done a Yes Men style prank with the same #SlideDeck but with slightly edited brand names: #EduSham , #GlowBallUniveristy might not be subtle enough.. but the #YesMen might get away with it, not like business people pay much attention.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-v0eTfkiQ3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0eTfkiQ3s

#LangdonWInner #EdTEch #TechEd

> Old Man Grayson, that stubborn old coot, refuses to use those new-fangled machines in his mill. “It just ain’t natch’rl.” “He’s a horse drawn man until his dying day.”

#LangdonWinner on #RodStewart and #CountryComforts which I think is a song on the album #GasolineAlley which I imagine is before #BlondesHaveMoreFun ? #OldManGrayson may have seen the end of their Country Comforts by spending on machines, like a #JohnBerger #PigEarth character saw a free tractor.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/gasoline-alley-188009/

As a teacher of budding scientific and technical professionals, I’m again and again struck by how little sense of personal autonomy is part of today’s education, our modern ›Paideia.‹ Students hope to master the fundamentals of, say, one of the branches of engineering, get a ›good job,‹ come up with some lucrative ›innovation‹ and live happily ever after. Very often they simply lack any sense that they might reflect upon, talk about, and seek to realize an independent, personal understanding of life’s possibilities. Thus, the autonomy of technology often comes to the fore when ascertaining people’s sense of basic priorities. But the intellectual and moral autonomy of today’s students, employees and citizens? Not so much.

... surprises and troubles attributed to technologies that seem to have become ›autonomous‹ can often be traced back to the persons and groups that are ›in charge.‹ Marx describes the kinds of mechanical apparatus that fully claimed the bodies and minds of factory workers in his day. As he explains such calamities in his h#TheoryOfCapital, it’s clear that the owners of the #MeansOfProduction bear full responsibility for what happens.