Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Man/society/technology
Author: Machines as the Measure of Men
Author: Michael AdasPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society
Author: Emmanuel G. MesthenePublisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Social research study of the impact of technological change and Innovation on social change in the USA. Annotated bibliography pp. 96 to 124 and references.
Man, Nature and Technology
Author: Erik BaarkPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349090875
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Man-made Futures
Author: Nigel CrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Man, Society, Technology
Author: American Industrial Arts AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Technology Review
Author: Technology and Responsibility
Author: P.T. DurbinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401569401
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Since it may seem strange for a new series to begin with volume 3, a word of explanation is in order. The series, Philosophy and Technology, inaugurated in this form with this volume, is the official publication of the Society for Philosophy & Technology. Approximately one volume each year is tobe published, alternating between proceedings volumes - taken from contributions to biennial international conferences of the Society - and miscellaneous volumes, with roughly the character of a professional society journal. The forerunners of the series in its present form were two proceedings volumes: Philosophy and Technology (1983), edited by Paul T. Durbin and Friedrich Rapp, and Philosophy and Technology //: Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice (1986), edited by Carl Mitcham and Alois Huning - both published (as volumes 80 and 90, respectively) in the series, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. The Society for Philosophy & Technology, now more than ten years old, is devoted to the promotion of philosophical schalarship that deals in one way or another with technology and technological society. "Philosophical scholarship" is interpreted broadly as including contribu tions from any and all perspectives; the one requirement is that the schalarship be sound, and all contributions to the series are subject to rigorous blind refereeing. "Technology," the other half of the philos ophy-and-technology pairing, is also construed broadly.
Metal and Flesh
Author: Ollivier DyensPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262262422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
One-Dimensional Man
Author: Herbert MarcusePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113443880X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.