Re: <documenta X><blast> fields
Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger (bracha@easynet.fr)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:43:57 +0200
From: Alan Julu Sondheim
> I'd just be careful about empowering/disempowering - or at least let us
> carefully define these terms.
from: Brandon J. Van Every
>Sure. I agree with you that by employing the terms
>"empowering/disempowering," I define my own agenda. And I hate both
>shopping and consumer retail culture. :-) But how else can these words be
>used, except in the subjective? They are perjorative terms and I can think
>of no acceptably "detached" definition for them. I don't think we can
>escape our own agendas - what, for instance, are the goals of the various
>metaphors that we are employing?
do you mean getting/loosing real power - power over what? poewr to
do/have/be what? - or getting/loosing an illusion of having a power,
empowering/disempowering imaginatively?
and if some technology helps us to develope a sense of being empowered
without attaching a corresponding "power" of any sort, where does the
distance between the two lead?