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Langdon Winner Autonomous Technology (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Autonomous Technology : Technics-Out-Of-Control As a Theme in Political Thought
- Publication Name
- Autonomous Technology
- Title
- Autonomous Technology
- Subtitle
- Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0262730499
- EAN
- 9780262730495
- ISBN
- 9780262730495
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Release Date
- 15/08/1978
- Release Year
- 1978
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 11.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1978
- Topic
- Social Aspects
- Number of Pages
- 396 Pages
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The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our standard conceptions of technology reveal a disorientation that borders on dissociation from reality. And as long as we lack the ability to make our situation intelligible, all of the "data" in the world will make no difference. From the Introduction
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262730499
ISBN-13
9780262730495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1170367
Product Key Features
Book Title
Autonomous Technology : Technics-Out-Of-Control As a Theme in Political Thought
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects
Publication Year
1978
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
396 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
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College Graduate Student
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"This study of the idea of technology out of control makes an important contributionto our understanding of the problems of civilization. The basic argument is not that some persons orgroups promote technology against the public interest (true though that is), or even that ourtechnology develops in its own way in spite of all our efforts to control it (also true in somerespects). Rather, Winner is concerned with a more subtle effect: the artifacts that we haveinvented to satisfy our material wants have now developed, in size and complexity, to the point ofdelimiting or even determining our conception of the wants themselves. In that way, we as acivilization are losing mastery over our own tools.... "As a source for readings and reflections onthis problem, the book is rich and rewarding.... If it has a practical lesson, it is that ofawareness: only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technologicalreality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action." Jerome R.Ravetz Science, "This study of the idea of technology out of control makes an important contribution to our understanding of the problems of civilization. The basic argument is not that some persons or groups promote technology against the public interest (true though that is), or even that our technology develops in its own way in spite of all our efforts to control it (also true in some respects). Rather, Winner is concerned with a more subtle effect: the artifacts that we have invented to satisfy our material wants have now developed, in size and complexity, to the point of delimiting or even determining our conception of the wants themselves. In that way, we as a civilization are losing mastery over our own tools.... "As a source for readings and reflections on this problem, the book is rich and rewarding.... If it has a practical lesson, it is that of awareness: only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action." Jerome R. Ravetz Science, "This study of the idea of technology out of control makes an important contribution to our understanding of the problems of civilization. The basic argument is not that some persons or groups promote technology against the public interest (true though that is), or even that our technology develops in its own way in spite of all our efforts to control it (also true in some respects). Rather, Winner is concerned with a more subtle effect: the artifacts that we have invented to satisfy our material wants have now developed, in size and complexity, to the point of delimiting or even determining our conception of the wants themselves. In that way, we as a civilization are losing mastery over our own tools.... "As a source for readings and reflections on this problem, the book is rich and rewarding.... If it has a practical lesson, it is that of awareness: only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action." - Jerome R. Ravetz, Science, "Readers interested in technology, politics, and social change will find Autonomous Technology a useful guide and a thoughtful inquiry into the relationship between technology and society. In it, Winner outlines the paradoxes of technological development, the images of alienation and liberation evoked by machines, and he assesses the historical conditions underlying the exponential growth of technology. Winner brings together the ideas of several gifted observers of industrial society, among them Karl Marx, Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Herbert Marcuse, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Hannah Arendt, pointing up the importance (and shortcomings) of their thinking on technological and technocratic development. In asking the question, What have we created?, Winner evokes the myths of Frankenstein and Prometheus to illustrate the possibility that we may all face a permanent bondage to our own inventions. To answer the question, What is to be done about what we have created?, Winner explores the possibilities offered by epistemological luddism. "The author, an assistant professor of political science, has read the many artists and social scientists concerned with the consequences of uncontrolled technological development. But his inspiration is also fed by the anti-technological reactions he witnessed in the early sixties..... The book is extremely well documented and written." Sociology, "Readers interested in technology, politics, and social change will find Autonomous Technology a useful guide and a thoughtful inquiry into therelationship between technology and society. In it, Winner outlines the paradoxes of technologicaldevelopment, the images of alienation and liberation evoked by machines, and he assesses thehistorical conditions underlying the exponential growth of technology. Winner brings together theideas of several gifted observers of industrial society, among them Karl Marx, Lewis Mumford,Jacques Ellul, Herbert Marcuse, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Hannah Arendt, pointing up theimportance (and shortcomings) of their thinking on technological and technocratic development. Inasking the question, What have we created?, Winner evokes the myths of Frankenstein and Prometheusto illustrate the possibility that we may all face a permanent bondage to our own inventions. Toanswer the question, What is to be done about what we have created?, Winner explores thepossibilities offered by epistemological luddism. "The author, an assistant professor of politicalscience, has read the many artists and social scientists concerned with the consequences ofuncontrolled technological development. But his inspiration is also fed by the anti-technologicalreactions he witnessed in the early sixties..... The book is extremely well documented and written."Sociology
Copyright Date
1978
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
76-040100
Dewey Decimal
303.4/83
Dewey Edition
21
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