ABSTRACT
This conversation sets out to critically delineate the distinctions and overlaps between technology, technique, technē, and tools. In a free-flowing dialogue, Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal and Bernhard Siegert attempt to situate the concept of technology within its various historical and geographical locations. Discussing the utility and validity of rhetorical techniques used by popular and academic histories of technology, they debate the benefits and limits of applying modern technological terms to historical practices. Moreover, Dhaliwal and Siegert ponder the relationship between mediation and techniques; reflect on how practices are instituted; and note some origins, evolutions, and divergences pertaining to media studies as a transatlantic discipline.
