Here are some of the ideas that Daniel discuss in our week 12 lectorial (Yayy! last lectorial of the semester):

• Technological determinism is a valid way of looking at the world
• Humanity is in charge of its own future
• Innovation and progress is hindered by scientific regulation
• Machines are becoming too intuitive/intelligent
• Dust has negligible matter, but it has great power

Focusing on dust and its negligible matter, technological inventions has been assembled with these materials taken from our earth. Hence, it has great power in the world of technological determination and innovations, encouraging us the reliance to these resources. “…allowed dust to do the work: a temporal, slow compiling by the non-human particles as a work of art installed at the museum, ‘a purposeful inactivity'” (Parikka 2013). Obsession with resources, with what we take from the earth not only significantly build a constant progression but we also need to think about the people who literally obtain these resources from the mine. They are the ones breathing the dust into their lungs, having to live with the consequences of their own health. These people may have been the ones collecting materials for the consumers’ media materialism such as having an iPhone, computers and etc. Likewise, our planet itself is affected while geologists study and examine how the planet works and our impact on it. We’ve all heard of the global political issue; the climate change, the ‘dying planet’. See dust is only wall few materials but as obsession with collecting these resources occur, it has an enormous power in the impact of our earth and on us as ones living within.