Invasive technification :: critical essays in the philosophy of technology /

Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense too. Technological infrastructure and the instutions of a technified society today determine what perce...

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1. Verfasser: Böhme, Gernot
Weitere Verfasser: Shingleton, Cameron
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
German
Veröffentlicht: London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2012], ♭2012.
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Zusammenfassung:Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense too. Technological infrastructure and the instutions of a technified society today determine what perception is, how we communicate and what forms of social life are possible. A fundamental new conception of technology is therefore required. Technology can no longer be seen simply as a means of efficiently attaining pre-established ends. Rather, it needs to be considered as a total structure, somethi.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 261 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781441134028
1441134026
9781441194657
1441194657
1283736071
9781283736077

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