HUMAN FACTORS AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY
SUPPLEMENTAL READING
- Hubert L. Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa, "Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology"
Rather than focussing on Heidegger and Borgmann's well-known critique of technology, this essay examines how they answer the crucial question: "How can we relate ourselves to technology in a way that not only resists its devastation but also gives it a positive role in our lives?"
- Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)
This book traces the development of the "science of work" in the 19th and early 20th centuries through the figure of the human motor--the idea that the human body is a machine whose rhythms and movements can be tuned to optimal productive power.
- Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (New York: Penguin, 2003)
- Therblig: In time-and-motion study, a unit of work or absence of work into which an industrial operation may be divided; a symbol representing such a unit. (Oxford English Dictionary) See the Wikipedia entry on Therbligs.
A Measure of Time: American Art 1900 to the Present, Berkeley Art Museum exhibition and Pacific Film Archive film series, Spring 2006.
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