Inhaltliche Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Technology and the Demands of Democracy -- For a Critical Theory of Digital Technology -- Theorizing Technocapitalism and the Information Society -- Metaphors and Ideologies for the Technological Society -- Technocapitalism, the Infotainment Society and the Info-Entertainment Postindustrial Complex -- Technopolitics and New Public Spheres -- Some Concluding Remarks -- 2 Metaphors of Cyberspace and Digital Technologies -- Anthropomorphic Metaphors, the Self, and the Body -- Metaphors of Activity and Movement -- Nature and the Naturalizing of Technology -- Travel and the Frontier: Metaphors of Adventure -- Military and Space Metaphors -- Metaphors of Technoculture -- Some Concluding Comments -- 3 Technology and Alienation -- Technophobia vs. Technophilia -- Alienation and Technology -- Appropriate and Sustainable Technology -- Concluding Comments -- 4 The Media, Democracy, and Spectacle -- The Rise of Partisan Corporate Broadcasting Programs and Networks and the Obama Era -- The Trump Era -- The Trump Resistance -- The COVID-19 Spectacle and the Downfall of Trump -- 5 Intellectuals, Citizens, and Digital Technologies in a New Era of Struggle -- The Public Sphere and the Intellectual -- Sartre, the Public Intellectual, and the Postmodern Challenge -- New Technologies, New Public Spheres, and New Intellectuals -- New Tasks for the Public Intellectual -- Alternative and Oppositional Media -- From the 2011 Arab Uprisings Through Occupy and the Trump Resistance -- Media and Cultural Activism in the Trump Era -- Concluding Remarks -- 6 Globalization, Technopolitics and Revolution -- Theorizing Globalization Critically -- Technopolitics and Oppositional Political Movements -- The Global Movement against Capitalist Globalization -- Technopolitics: A Contested Terrain -- Toward a Cosmopolitan Globalization.
As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a knowledge or information society, and therefore ascribes technologies a central role in every aspect of life. This Great Transformation poses tremendous challenges to critical social theorists, citizens, and educators to rethink their basic tenets, to deploy the media in creative and productive ways, and to restructure the workplace, social institutions, and schooling to respond constructively and progressively to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing. The Author Douglas Kellner works at the intersection of "third generation" critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School and in cultural studies in the tradition of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He is currently the George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles |
