Invasive technification [[electronic resource] ] : critical essays in the philosophy of technology / / Gernot Böhme ; translated by Cameron Shingleton

• Autore: Böhme Gernot
• Pubblicazione: London, : Bloomsbury Academic, [2012]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 601
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Philosophy; Technology - Moral and ethical aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Invasive technification; The philosophy of technology; Chapter 2 Science, technology, civilization; Civilization in the age of technoscience; Knowledge society; Trust in modernity; Free scientific enquiry and its limits; Borderline situations in technological civilization; Chapter 3 Understanding technology: Use and entertainment; Technical gadgetry; Technology in the life of an everyday philologist; Chapter 4 The technification of human relations; Technostructures: Society and nature ; Anthropological change in a technological worldThe technification of perception; Genetics, biotechnology and human self-understanding; Chapter 5 The technification of nature; Artificial nature; Nature in the age of mechanical reproduction; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Critique of Technology; Guided by an interest in rational conditions; Computers in schools: Critical reflections on culture, technology and education; Thinking anti-cyclically; Cultural resources for coping with technology; Conclusion; Appendix; The last man as Übermensch; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5 ; Chapter 6Appendix; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Technology has extended its reach to the humanbody, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants andtechnological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sensetoo. Technological infrastructure and the institutions of a technified society todaydetermine what perception is, how we communicate and what forms of humanrelationship with the natural world are possible. A fundamental new conceptionof technology is urgently needed. Technology can no longer be seen as a meansfor efficiently attaining pre-established ends. Rather, it must be seen as a total structure whi
• Titolo autorizzato: Invasive technification
• ISBN: 1-4411-3402-6; 1-283-73607-1; 1-4411-9465-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785714303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II