ISBN:
9781433107757
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (286 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Technology : A Primer 〈BR〉 Second edition
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology -- Philosophy
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Technology -- Social aspects
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Technology and civilization
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Technology ; Philosophy..
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Technology ; Social aspects..
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Technology and civilization
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the Need for a Primer -- Part I: Culture and Technology: The Received View -- Chapter 1: The Power and Problem of Culture, The Power and Problem of Technology -- You Know a Lot About Culture -- You Know a Lot About Technology -- Technological Culture -- Chapter 2: Progress -- The Meanings of Progress -- Defining Progress -- The Goals of Progress -- The Importance of Criteria -- The Story of Progress in American Culture -- Two Concepts That Underpin and Help to Sustain This Story: Evolution and the Sublime -- The Uses of the Progress Story -- Promoting a Better Life -- Selling Us Something -- Judging and Controlling Others -- New Technology Equals Progress: To Question This Is Heresy -- Progress for Whom? -- Progress for What? -- Chapter 3: Convenience -- Convenience Is Another Story -- What Is Convenience? -- Convenience and the Body: From Meeting the Demands of the Body to Overcoming the Limits of the Body -- Wants and Needs -- When Convenience Isn't -- The Time and Space of Consumption -- A Perpetual State of Dissatisfaction -- What the Future Holds -- Chapter 4: Determinism -- Technology as Cause: Technological Determinism -- Technology as Effect: Cultural Determinism -- Technological versus Cultural Determinism -- Chapter 5: Control -- Yes, We Have Mastery of Our Tools -- Control over Nature and the Environment -- Social Control -- No, Our Tools Are Out of Control -- Master and Slave: Trust and the Machine -- Autonomy -- Dependence -- Master and Slave -- AI, Expert Systems, and Intelligent Agents -- Conclusion -- Part II: Representative Responses to the Received View -- Chapter 6: Luddism -- Historical Luddism -- Contemporary Luddism -- Chapter 7: Appropriate Technology -- Sources and Varieties of AT -- AT and the Limited Understanding of Context.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On the Need for a Primer; Part I: Culture and Technology: The Received View; Chapter 1: The Power and Problem of Culture, The Power and Problem of Technology; You Know a Lot About Culture; You Know a Lot About Technology; Technological Culture; Chapter 2: Progress; The Meanings of Progress; Defining Progress; The Goals of Progress; The Importance of Criteria; The Story of Progress in American Culture; Two Concepts That Underpin and Help to Sustain This Story: Evolution and the Sublime; The Uses of the Progress Story
Description / Table of Contents:
Promoting a Better LifeSelling Us Something; Judging and Controlling Others; New Technology Equals Progress: To Question This Is Heresy; Progress for Whom?; Progress for What?; Chapter 3: Convenience; Convenience Is Another Story; What Is Convenience?; Convenience and the Body: From Meeting the Demands of the Body to Overcoming the Limits of the Body; Wants and Needs; When Convenience Isn't; The Time and Space of Consumption; A Perpetual State of Dissatisfaction; What the Future Holds ; Chapter 4: Determinism; Technology as Cause: Technological Determinism
Description / Table of Contents:
Technology as Effect: Cultural DeterminismTechnological versus Cultural Determinism; Chapter 5: Control; Yes, We Have Mastery of Our Tools; Control over Nature and the Environment; Social Control ; No, Our Tools Are Out of Control; Master and Slave: Trust and the Machine; Autonomy; Dependence; Master and Slave; AI, Expert Systems, and Intelligent Agents; Conclusion; Part II: Representative Responses to the Received View; Chapter 6: Luddism; Historical Luddism; Contemporary Luddism; Chapter 7: Appropriate Technology; Sources and Varieties of AT; AT and the Limited Understanding of Context
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8: The UnabomberKaczynski Must Be Insane; The Unabomber Manifesto; Lessons to Learn; Part III: Cultural Studies on Technological Culture; Chapter 9: Meaning; So, Then, What Is Technology?; Why Struggle with Meaning?; Struggles over Meaning; Chapter 10: Causality; Beyond Determinism ; Mechanistic Perspectives on Causality; Assumption #1: Technologies Are Isolatable Objects, That Is, Discrete Things; Assumption #2: Technologies Are Seen as the Cause of Change in Society; Assumption #3: Technologies Are Autonomous in Origin and Action
Description / Table of Contents:
Assumption #4: Culture Is Made Up of Autonomous ElementsSimple Causality; Symptomatic Causality; Soft Determinism: A Variant of Mechanistic Causality; Nonmechanistic Perspectives of Causality; Assumption #1: Technology Is Not Autonomous, but Is Integrally Connected to the Context Within Which It Emerges, Is Developed, and Used ; Assumption #2: Culture Is Made Up of Connections ; Assumption #3: Technologies Arise Within These Connections as Part of Them and as Effective Within Them; Expressive Causality; The Essence; Culture as Homogenous Totality ; Martin Heidegger and Jacques Ellul
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Articulation and Assemblage
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