This essay will deal with the change of role of knowledge in modern society which has come under the influence of market’s demand due to mechanization of society and now revolves around this demand, focusing on this problem presented in Lyotard’s essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. It will try to solve the problem of the relationship of the suppliers and users of knowledge to the knowledge they supply and use is now tending, and will increasingly tend, to assume the form already taken by the relationship of commodity producers and consumers to the commodities they produce and consume-that is, the form of value. Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold; it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. The essay will also try to portrait how knowledge changed by focusing on previous theories about production and education, mostly on Marxism and then Althusser’s Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. The process in which knowledge has become market item due to mechanization of society, primarily technological development, will be shown in couple of steps: the change of the process of learning; the implementation of knowledge into computers; rise of the new social order demanded by the mechanized society; exchange on the modern market; how the State controls knowledge for benefitting on the market and finally it will show how the knowledge actually revolves around demands of the market. It is without question that the process of learning has changed due to fast changing nature of mechanization. This process of mechanization has had great impact not only on the society itself but it has also changed very core of the society which is kno... ... middle of paper ... ...ialization, skilled workers and manual work were the postulate that actually made this modern development possible, but trends change and so does demand. Being skilled is today’s synonym for not being educated enough and State uses this in order to have cheap working force on the jobs that will enable further technological development. To sum it all up, knowledge hos lost its value through the machines in that way that it is only seen as beneficiary if corresponding to the demands of the market. If there is no need for the knowledge on the market then there will be no need for knowledge in global picture. The University of Tuzla Faculty of Philosophy Department of English Language and Literature The Transformation of Knowledge: From Essential Social Quality To Essential Market Item Muamera Mujić Tuzla, April 2014
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. "Excerpts from The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge." Hutcheon and Natoli 71-90.
The essay “Into the electronic millennium” is a cynical observation of an author named Sven Birkerts, towards the electronic era of 21st century. Author’s overall intent of the essay is to put forth an awareness with a pinch of bias on the electronic damage to the society. He makes many assertions to argue his points which are some what valid even today, some of them which capture quick attention are: “The electronic media are invisible in process, but omnipresent in product” (Birkerts), “the only way that we can understand what is happening- what has already happened- is by the way of serve and unnatural dissociation of sensibility” (Birkerts). With all these impressive protestations, author is trying to make his readers ponder about the topic, as he says, “ To get the grip on the dimensions of the change, you must force yourself to imagine -deeply and in non-televisual terms- what the world was like a hundred, even fifty, years ago” (Birkerts).
...nd again resulting in creation of bigger markets and pulling large competitors and creating new job opportunities, but the problem is with undefined factors like outsourcing, lack of skill development in respect with technology advancement. Technology advancement may be causing huge impact on employment but it is also making human living better. Technology as became part and parcel of our life so we can’t think of life without technology, but to make sure that the same does not harm our livelihood we should keep in track and sharpen and hone our skills with advancement of technology. (Brynjolfsson & McAfee, 2011)
Learning is a sort of joint educational activities that formed by both teachers and students under the aims of educational declaration. It concerns on how students capture the knowledge and skills of science and art, attaching more importance to individual’s development. The commencement of the teaching process relies on the understanding of the learning process so that the learning theory is of significance in the field of education. There are various understandings of learning, which make teaching either lead a change emphasising on external behaviour or focus on individual’s self-construction. It indicates that teaching staff is not troubled due to the learning, but the interpretation.
Lyotard, J.F. 1984. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by G. Benningston and B. Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
In an era where knowledge is the sole primary key to success and advancement. It is necessary to eradicate the mindset of the system regarding education as a form of robotizing scholars. Leaving students with no form of thought to fend for themselves later on in life. Rather than continuing with this erroneous form of teaching; it would be of society’s best interest if we embark in a quest to change ancient education methods and enhance them to fit today’s evolving minds. This way learning methods will challenge the mind, enhance though process, expand knowledge, push boundaries, and improve education exhaustively. These education is erroneous in the way that it robotizes scholars, doesn’t encourage thinking outside the box, and regards students
thus shown to rely less on workers and shift to technology, which is able to produce goods and
In as much as there are different kinds of learners such as visual, tactile, and auditory among others, the teaching approach also varies. In this sense, with learning made faster and more vicarious, the education sectors come up with dynamic and up-to-date strategies to strengthen the settled rule of learning.
Theory of modernity is based on the notion of social progress, it implies that all of society, in whatever era they exist and in what region or were located, are involved in a single, all-consuming, the universal process of the ascent of human society from savagery to civilization.
... end. His writing on ‘life world’ and ‘system’ he uses these two concepts to bring about an understanding that though language is a medium of communication; hence the four vadlilty claims, communication on its own is still a broader concept has he relates it culture and social capital in the social sciences. The essay discuss the way in which rationalization has been embedded within as a force which when looked upon within the modern capitalist societies ‘system’ the ‘life-world’ loses its power as the expense of theses forces. Thus he takes up examples of transactions for the gain of money. It is seen that Habermas’s use of language echoes that of other philosophers of social science it can be seen that he has done this to help familiarise the concepts and bring understanding to his TCA but he aim to make clear his different viewpoints
But this still doesn’t entail knowledge. Knowledge requires truth, but the future’s truth value is undefined. The events in question have yet to occur, and thus whether or not they will occur is questionable. So, any one of these future events could be true or false. Thus, the truth value is undefined. If the truth value is undefined then the belief is not true. If it cannot be true then it cannot be knowledge. Instead, since we can be justified in our future beliefs, the most we can obtain is a justified belief. Thus, the artists are correct we cannot have knowledge of the future; we can only have justified beliefs.
In the past more than 20 years ago, the population that case half did not require education level high, for this reason works that were carried out in the area of manufacturing, transportation,
The overall essence of education or knowledge acquisition is reflected in an axiom by Confucius which says “Tell me, and I will forget; show me, and I will remember; but involve me, and I will understand. Back then, it was clear that learning was a comprehensive process which involves passionate exchanges between students and their teachers; unfortunately this is not the case in most modern classrooms. Instead of the expected bidirectional communication between learners and teachers, in the modern learning environment there is a unidirectional system which involves the teacher incessantly hurling facts at students who, due to their passive roles as mere receptacles, have fallen asleep or; in the case of “best” students are mindlessly taking notes. This leads to a situation where knowledge has neither been conferred nor acquired.
Theoretical model of modern economic growth shows that long-term economic growth and raise the level of per capita income depends on technological progress. This is because of without technological progress and with the increase of capital per capita, marginal returns of capital would diminish and output per capita growth would eventually stagnate (Solow, 1956; Swan, 1956). Studies have shown that “experience, skills and knowledge in the long-term economic growth is playing an increasingly important role” (World Bank, 1999). Despite how technological progress work on economic growth, and how there are different views on the role of in the end, but I am afraid no one would deny that technical progress in the important role of economic development. In this sense, for a country to achieve long-term economic growth, we must continue to promote technological progress. However, economic growth theory is analyzed in general, and usually under the assumption that in the closed economy, and technological progress in a country not normally have taken place in various departments at the same time, and now the economy are often increasingly open economy. In this way, the technological progress in different economic impact on a country may be quite different. In addition, we assume that technological progress is Hicks neutral, is to an industry in itself, but technological progress also reflects the establishment of new industries and development. The new industries and technology-intensive industries generally older than the high, the use of less labor. Even the old industries, the general trend of technological progress is labor-saving.
... for cheap labor, while evenly adding funds to education for specialized labor. While this process is taking hold, corporations need to be incentivised to use said nation’s labor for skilled purposes. This can be undertaken through negotiations and tax incentives. Additionally, new jobs during this time will be created from investment in sustainable energy, the manufacturing of high-quality products and materials, and big data jobs. Also new outsourcing and crowdsourcing jobs will begin to develop as developed nations begin skilled labor outsourcing, not just cheap and unskilled labor outsourcing. With these new job opportunities and with increased effort by governments, the job market for skilled labor will skyrocket. Cumulatively, the adaption in this way to labor digitization will allow a state in any economic situation to grow economically for decades to come.