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Friday, March 27, 2009
Embodiment? Hermeneutic?
After this past week, I have decided that the line between Ihde's embodiment and hermeneutic relationships is not as clear to me is it seemed. Technologies have different ways of helping us interpret the world. How one person interprets the world is not necessarily the same as someone else. As I have said before, something transparent to one may be opaque to another. For me, I think that these embodiment and hermeneutic relationships work together in order to help us best understand things around us. I think that it depends on the point of view of the person/people involved in the interpretation. Even the simple eyeglass example from class can be seen as a hermeneutic relationship for someone that has never worn glasses before. It is not a transparent technology for them at first and there is a time for adjustment. Although this is only one example, I think that the embodiment/hermeneutic relationship applies to many, more complicated scenarios.
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I agree, and as we share the same major, I am interested to know if you believe the technologies in pharmacy can be clearly separated or if they too are more complicated.
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ReplyDeleteSo I'm watching the suns game right now and Shaq is lumbering down the court. Do you wonder what he's thinking about right now? If a player has played basketball for 15? years like he has, do you think he thinks about the game in a way that is natural to him?
ReplyDeleteWhat is he thinking about?
"I could eat Shuhan He for breakfast"
"I'm going home to a $20 million dollar paycheck"
"holy crap I'm a big man."
"I should twitter this during the game"
Shuhan
i totally agree with you on this one on how it depends on the person him/herself because people think differently.
ReplyDeleteExactly, seems like we are both thinking similar things as my post was kinda the same topic. I'm sure almost everyone else is on the same page we are then, too.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right that the distinction is relative to the person. I think it is also relative to that person's relationship to the world. When my relationship to the world is watching movies online I think my relationship to my computer is fairly transparent; I look at the screen, there is a movie on it. However, when my relationship is this blog discussion, I must have a fairly hermeneutic relationship with the computer. Of course, I do not own my own computer, and so I check them out from the library and, consequently, I have relationships with several computers. That is how get viruses.
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