For this post I'll attempt to put Konik, I. 2007."Thematising the ugly side of sublime technological development in Sonzero's Pulse (2006) as an inadvertent critique of the 'technocentricism' of postmodernity" into my own words.
From what I can understand Konik seems to be explaining (in some rather overly complicated terms) how technology and the advancement there of in our postmodern society has changed us as a people. According to the article we have become so reliant on technology that we've changed and become both less social and less self sufficient and thus lost our soul in a sense.
The article also states that capitalism and technocentricism are directly linked in this post modern age we live in. Due to people being so reliant on technology we've allowed consumerism and thus promoting capitalism.
Lastly the article makes reference to the movie Pulse in which the director intended for the ghosts in the story who were caused by an advancement in technology who eventually destroyed society was in fact a metaphor for how technology in reality is inevitably ruining our lives and society as a whole.
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