Ursula Franklin and Technology

 

From all of the readings in class, Franklin best describes Ecofeminism. Her argument with space and time correlates with the drawing of humans further away from nature. As she mentions on page 148, in ancient periods, time was based on nature. The sun and moon would distinguish time. But with the blurring of space and time, we move further from nature to a reliance on technology. As she mentions in her book "When the bell chimes noon in London, New York begins its day". The clock is now the determinant of time; it produces 'synchronicity' (Franklin, 150). However, with technology time and space patterns are vanishing. This article acts as her warning to return to nature's time and space. This is her version of ecofeminism speaking out.

 

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Hello, my name is Sarah Potter, I am a third year Communication Studies and Sociology major at York University, Toronto.