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BL
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845597
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Culture + technology
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Slack, Jennifer Daryl
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Culture and technology : : a primer /\ Jennifer Daryl Slack J. Macgregor Wise.
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| Edition Statement
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Second edition.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Peter Lang,, [2015]
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1 online resource (269 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1453914501
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: 9781453914502
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1433107759
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9781433107757
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| Notes
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Revised edition of Culture + technology / Jennifer Daryl Slack, J. Macgregor Wise. 2005.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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Technology and civilization.
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Technology-- Philosophy.
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Technology-- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Technology and civilization.
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Technology-- Philosophy.
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Technology-- Social aspects.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48/3
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T14.S58 2014eb
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| Added Entry
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Wise, J. Macgregor, (John Macgregor)
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