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Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology

Zerzan and Carnes had assembled some of the most important critical appraisals of technology written to the date of its publication in 1991 with this book. Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Langdon Winner, Joseph Weizenbaum, Carolyn Merchant, Morris Berman, George Bradford, Jerry Mander, Stanley Diamond, Russel Means and many others offer a searing indictment of technology and its catastrophic social effects. Almost all of these essays or excerpts have appeared elsewhere, but this single text has collected many of the essential topics and critiques levied from some of the greatest critics of technoculture. Contents: PART I: TECHNOLOGY: IT'S HISTORY AND OUR FUTURE Question 1. How has technology developed - or encroached? Are the computer, nuclear power, and recombinant DNA comparable to the wheel, the printing press, and gunpowder - or do they represent an entirely new order? 1. Authoritarian and Democratic Technics by Lewis Mumford 2. Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum 3. The Silicon Idol by Michael Shallis Question 2. Was there a point in history when technology came to dominate the individual? How could this have happened? 4. In Search of the Primitive by Stanley Di

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