The Progression of the Medium Change between the Painting with the Digi

The Progression of the Medium Change between the scene with the Digital ImageAlbert Borgmann, in his Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, devises the spin paradigm as an illustration of the pattern into which the stuff that defines expert humankind falls. Even though Borgmann writes his book in 1984, it is of value to examine the paradigm in context of current developments of technological society. It becomes a question of whether the artifice paradigm is still applicable to the current technological setting, or if it is truer outright than even before. It is thus residen into consideration in light of the specialized instance of the thing, as Borgmann uses it, that is a painting prior to the modern period. The specialised thing of a painting is contrasted to the technological device of a digital stove. The progression of the medium change between the painting to the digital image will be examined as well as the skill it takes to work them. Availabilit y of these is observed, along with the consequence of such a metamorphosis in the essence of the thing and device.First, however, Borgmann states the thing as a pretechnological object in the Heideggerian sense. The thing gathers the fourfold, being earth, sky, mortals, and divinity. Thus it is something which reveals the terra firma in all its aspects. In this case, a painting of the medieval times is one which is created by a master. The master has undergone a lifetime of training under another master, and the seam of the arts is under the guild system. A single painting would take many weeks to complete, and all instruments in its creation are known instinctively to the master. The pigments are hand ground and prepared, as are the brushes and th... ...into a commodity of affluence, and that is what produces disengagement. Affluent commodities disengage in their diversion from central things, which result in detachment from reality and detachment from the world. As th e world is revealed through technological devices, it is no longer a world of humanity, but a world of technology and its devices. Such an existence deteriorates into loneliness and depression, both of which are deadly to the being of humanity. In truth, it can be said, by line of the introductory argument, that technological existence may well bring about the defunctness of the human race, unless it is counteracted. This counteraction, may, as Borgmann claims, lie in a counterbalance of focal things and practices.Works CitedBorgmann, Albert. Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life. Chicago University of Chicago Press. 1984.