Dan Klyn
What Good Means
Sermon for WIAD Bristol 2021
Ruins, Rub-outs, and Trash
A Talk by Dan KlynBecause McLuhan
A Talk by Dan KlynDan talks about about what McLuhan had to say about the power of the medium, and what can be gained by peeling it apart from the message and considering it separately. By being intentional about selecting a medium to work in, we affect the way people consider and understand the message we’re communicating in deeper and more profound ways.
Holistic and prescriptive technologies
Holistic technologies are normally associated with the notion of craft. Artisans, be they potters, weavers, metal-smiths, or cooks, control the process of their own work from beginning to finish. Using holistic technologies does not mean that people do not work together, but the way in which they work together leaves the individual worker in control of a particular process of creating or doing something.
The opposite is specialization by process; this I call prescriptive technology. Here, the making or doing of something is broken down into clearly identifiable steps. Each step is carried out by a separate worker, or group or workers, who need to be familiar only with the skills of performing that one step. This is what is normally meant by "division of labor".