A few semesters ago I took a philosophy course titled Nature, Technology, and Society, which covered Langdon Winner’s “Are Humans Obsolete?”. Interestingly enough the section of the course that we covered him in was under primitivism. I thought this was interesting considering Winner’s lean toward posthumanism, but where I found a connection was in the rejection of technological progression. I realized that Winner’s approach focuses more on technology’s manipulative nature over humans after reading this in the context of this class. Continue reading →