Choe, Wolhee
Toward an Aesthetic Criticism of Technology

Technology as Aesthetic Activity: Operative Forms and Style. This volume argues that technology can and should be understood and experienced aesthetically. A method for this new approach to technology, developed from aesthetic criticism, makes style a vital component of any technological artifact (as it is of any artistic artifact). Style, defined through perception, cognition, and construction, places the technological artifact within an aesthetic frame. The technological object is thus shown to initiate the aesthetic processes of imitation, transformation and reconstitution. In this aesthetic frame, a technological product can provide an integrating experience between the self and the world, by changing and refining the self's ways of seeing, thinking, and making. 208 Seiten, gebunden (Worcester Polytechnic Institute: WPI Studies; Vol. 2/Peter Lang Verlag 1989) Mängelexemplar