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An Overview of the Human-Technology Relationship Over a Field Study and a Science Fiction: a Residence in Ankara And J. G. Ballard’s “High-Rise”

Authors: TUNÇER, Fatma;

An Overview of the Human-Technology Relationship Over a Field Study and a Science Fiction: a Residence in Ankara And J. G. Ballard’s “High-Rise”

Abstract

This text focuses on a comparison of the social roles of technologies on the basis of similarities and differences between High-Rise, the novel written by James Graham Ballard and the observations based on the field research that was conducted in a residence in Oran, Ankara between 2017-2018. This study deals with the various relationships and interpretations attributed to technologies by those, who are living in buildings that were equipped with various technological tools. What makes a fictional novel meaningful in the context of this study are that the differences in the way of accessing to the technological tools and the class positioning based on those differences that is found in the novel is also observed among the occupiers in the residence where the field research was completed. Within this scope, the social roles of technologies and concepts that refer to each other such as positioning of social classes, status, prestige, power and potency will be parallelly opened up in a disscussion between a fictional work and a field study. This study aims to show that technologies play a functional role in the operation of the class positioning. Additionally it is intended to demonstrate that the technologies, which can be an indicator of the individual's status and economic power, in turn, can be the tools that help residensts to gain authority and privilege among others.

Bu metin, 2017-2018 yılları arasında Ankara’nın Oran semtindeki bir rezidansta gerçekleştirilen alan araştırmasına dayalı gözlemlerle, James Graham Ballard’ın Gökdelen romanı arasındaki benzerlikler ve farklılıklar temelinde teknolojilerin sosyal rollerine dair bir karşılaştırmaya yer vermektedir. Bu çalışma, çeşitli teknolojik araçlarla donatılmış binalarda yaşayanların teknolojilerle kurdukları ilişkileri ve teknolojilere atfettikleri anlamlandırmaları işlemektedir. Bir kurgu romanını bu çalışma bağlamında anlamlı kılan husus, romanda görülen teknolojik araçlara erişim biçimlerindeki farklılıklar ve bu farklılıklara dayalı sınıfsal konumlanmanın rezidans sakinleri arasında da görülmesidir. Bu kapsamda teknolojilerin sosyal rolü; sınıfsal konum, statü, prestij, güç ve iktidar gibi birbirine işaret eden kavramlar, paralel bir şekilde hem bir kurgu eser hem de alan araştırması üzerinden tartışmaya açılacaktır. Sınıfsal konumlanmanın işleyişinde teknolojilerin işlevsel bir rol üstlendiğini göstermeyi amaçlayan bu çalışma, dışarıya karşı bireyin statüsünün ve ekonomik gücünün göstergesi olabilen teknolojilerin, sakinler arasında da kişilere otorite ve ayrıcalık kazandırabilen araçlara dönüşebileceğini ortaya koyabilmeye yöneliktir.

Keywords

Rezidans;James Graham Ballard;Gökdelen;insan-teknoloji ilişkisi;sınıfsal konumlanma, Antropoloji, Anthropology, Residence;James Graham Ballard;High-Rise;human-technology relationship;positioning of social class

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