Tehnika, sublimno i kulturalne razlike
Technology, the Sublime, and Cultural Differences

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the author proposes a reading of technology which brings it into connection with the sublime conceived both as a psycho-emotional response to the unfathomable and as the embodiment of the same. The author inaugurates his analysis by drawing attention to how these two conceptual fields represent seemingly antipodal entities. In reality, they exist in a very complex relationship whose present historical development and staging collapses their differences so that in certain circumstances it is possible to speak of the technological sublime. Furthermore, the author is of the opinion that this cultural-social state of things is not universal but largely restricted to the Western world within which it is also necessary to make distinctions and to differentiate. His main strategy of differentiation is not so much the unequal presence of technologies within different cultures, but rather the various ways that different cultures conceptualise and valorise technology and its products. In the third section of his article, the author offers a brief summary of the way that Irish culture has related to science and technology. In his conclusion, the author points to some issues which he believes have to be addressed if the presence and the cultural evaluation of technology within Croatian society and culture is to be analysed in a fruitful manner.

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