technicity

technicity

English

Noun

technicity (plural technicities)

1. The efficacy, functionality, or experience of a particular technology.
   • 1975, DGLR-Fachbuchreihe, Issue 6, page 864:

     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.

   • 2011, Rob Kitchin & Martin Dodge, Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life, The MIT Press (2011), →ISBN, page 42:

     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 […]

   • 2015, Mark B. N. Hansen, Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media, University of Chicago Press (2015), →ISBN, page 6:

     […] and photography following Vilém Flusser's account of how the photographic apparatus integrates its user into its technicity […]

2. The prevalence of or reliance upon (a particular) technology by a specific group of people or by humanity as a whole.
   • 1998, Nicholas Boyle, Who Are We Now?: Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney, University of Notre Dame Press (1998), →ISBN, page 218:

     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."

   • 2006, Jon Dovey & Helen W. Kennedy, Game Cultures: Computer Games As New Media: Computer Games as New Media, Open University Press (2006), →ISBN, page 17:

     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, […]

   • 2014, Ricardo M. Falcão, "Senegalese Youth at the Crossroads Between Coosan (Tradition) and the Appropriation of ICTS – Technology, Body, and Autonomy", in African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions (ed. Josep Martí), Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     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.