Only connect: Computer literacy from heidegger to cyberfeminism

Educational Theory

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 417-435

  Standish, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 11944262067     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1999.00417.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. VivekChaudhary, Rich Pickings for Computer Firms in Virtual Classrooms, The Guardian, 7 January 1998, 4.
2. Tom ConlonThe Internet is not a Panacea, Scottish Educational Review 29, no. 1 (1997): 30-38.
3. Caroline Daniel, You Learn as They Earn, New Statesman, 16 January 1998.
4. The critical importance of this kind of tension in education is explored at greater length in a chapter entitled Education after Postmodernism, ed. Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, and Paul Standish (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, The Learning Pharmacy, in Thinking Again: 1998).
5. Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? trans.J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper and Row, 1968), 21-22.
6. Martin Heidegger, Discourse on Thinking, trans. John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund (New York: Harper and Row, 1966), 56.
7. Martin Heidegger, The Principle of Reason, trans. Reginald Lilly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), 124.
8. Acques Derrida, The Principle of Sufficient Reason: The University in the Eyes of its Pupils, Diacritics Fallno. 3 (1983): 14.
9. Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? 154 For a fuller discussion of the context at issue here see Paul Standish, Heidegger and the Technology of Further Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education 31, no. 3 (1997): 439-460.
10. Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s, in Feminism/Postmodernism, ed. L.J. Nicholson (London: Routledge This article will be cited as MC in the text for all subsequent references190-2331990.
11. Conceit in this sense is a term from literary criticism that refers to a surprising comparison or connection, the appropriateness of which is not at all apparent initially but whose aptness becomes evident as the comparison is worked through. Hence it works in a provocative way, toward a gradual revealing. Haraway seems to be doing something that goes against stock ideas when she relates feminism to the new technology of science fiction. The aptness has to do with ways in which a feminine thinking might be better attuned to the free and associative as opposed to the linear and strictly logical-possibilities of thought that the Web perhaps makes possible. The evidence and arguments from Sadie Plant below are similarly counter-intuitive.
12. Sadie PlantZeros + Ones (London: Fourth Estate, 1997).
13. Tom Conlon argues that the Net's chaotic state only really became obvious with mass-scale development of the Web after (private correspondence). Nevertheless, Plant's general point remains1993.
14. John Caputo, Dreaming of the Innumerable: Derrida, Drucilla Cornell, and the Dance of Gender, in Derrida and Feminism, ed. Ellen K. Feder, Mary C. Rawlinson, and Emily Zakin (London: Routledge, 1997), 154.
15. Jill Marsden, Virtual Sexes and Feminist Futures: The Philosophy of Cyherfeminism, Radical Philosophy 78 (JulyAugust 1996): 6 - 16.
16. Dale Spender, Nattering on the Net: Women, Power, and Cyberspace (North Melbourne: Spinifex Press, 1995), 198.
17. Colin Lankshear, Meanings of Literacy in Contemporary Educational Reform Proposals, Educational Theory 48, no. 3 (1998): 351 - 72.
18. Lankshear, Meanings of Literacy in Contemporary Educational Reform Proposals, 354 Prime Minister Tony Blair's Foreword to Connecting the Learning Society, the British Government's consultation paper on the National Grid for Learning. Of course, it is no surprise that Blair's words echo those of President Clinton's Technology Literacy Challenge of February 1996, which asserts the goal of making ail U.S. children technologically literate by the twenty-first century.
19. Alan Clarke, The Path Towards Computer Literacy, Adults Learning, National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (January 1998): 18-19.
20. Nicholas C Burbules, Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy, in Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, ed. ILana Snyder (New South Wales: Allen and Unwin, 1997), 102-22.
21. Vivek Chaudhary, Laptop to Oust Books, The Guardian, 17 January italics added 1998, 4.
22. Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper and Row 1977).
23. E.M. Forster, Howard's End (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1941), 174.