New Aesthetic New Anxieties

A flood of information about the present shuts out the past

Technology reveals the active relation of man to nature, the direct process of the production of his life, and thereby it also lays bare the process of production of the social relations of his life, and of the mental conceptions that flow from these conceptions (Marx 2007: 493, footnote 4)

The Critical Engineer considers any technology depended upon to be both a challenge and a threat. The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose its inner workings, regardless of ownership or legal provision... raises awareness that with each technological advance our techno-political literacy is challenged. (Oliver, Savičić & Vasiliev 2011).