Then again, nobody has a direct experience of technology or society unmediated by nature either.
Also, nature-as-mediated precedes, both temporally and ontologically, technology and society. It is mediated through our senses, cognitive capabilities, and the fact that we are particular points of view. It is also mediated by any interaction with it. Nature has been mediated for a billion years or so now.
--- On Thu, 9/3/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
The fact that
> virtually no-one has a direct experience of nature,
> unmediated by technology or society, tells us that
> technology and society are the collective experience of
> nature.
>