عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
T14 .S58 2014eb
T14
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S58
2014eb
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1453914501
(Number (ISBN
9781453914502
Erroneous ISBN
1433107759
Erroneous ISBN
9781433107757
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Culture and technology :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a primer /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jennifer Daryl Slack & J. Macgregor Wise.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Second edition.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Peter Lang,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2015]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (269 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Revised edition of Culture + technology / Jennifer Daryl Slack, J. Macgregor Wise. 2005.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Title
Culture and technology.
International Standard Book Number
9781433107757
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Culture + technology
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Technology and civilization.
Technology-- Philosophy.
Technology-- Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
Technology and civilization.
Technology-- Philosophy.
Technology-- Social aspects.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
SOC-- 000000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
303
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48/3
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
T14
Book number
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S58
2014eb
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Slack, Jennifer Daryl
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Wise, J. Macgregor, (John Macgregor)
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200822182616.0
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