Lo-TEK
Book description
Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, this mythology ignored local wisdom and indigenous innovation, deeming it primitive. Today, we have slowly come to realize that the legacy of this mythology is haunting us.…
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Lo-TEK is an abbreviation for Traditional Ecological Knowledge, something contemporary societies lack.
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