technicity

Example Sentences

• "The ramjet is well placed to answer this^([sic]) new functions, as it is simple, inexpensive, that its technicity is well known, and its consumption is five to six times less than that of the rocket motor."
• "For an individual technical element such as a tool like a carpenter's saw, its technicity might be its hardness and flexibility (a product of human knowledge and production skills) that enables it in conjunction with human mediation to cut well […]"
• "[…] and photography following Vilém Flusser's account of how the photographic apparatus integrates its user into its technicity […]"
• "The consequence of assuming that the outstanding characteristic of the modern planetary order is its technicity (rather than the existence of a global market) is that an unnecessary stress is laid on the relationship (treated, possibly correctly, as radically distorted) between the individual and "things.""
• "For instance, the world wide web itself enables the formation of particular kinds of social bonds based on a position towards and facility with technology alongside particular cultural tastes and interests. This technicity does not bring about the disappearance of other types of ethnic identities or communities but extends them, […]"
• "This “technicity” present in today's relations in Senegal shouldn't be considered as simply a natural consequence of globalisation and the availability of ICTs."