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Sites with Many Links
- Links on the Philosophy of Technology
- Voice of the Shuttle: Science, Technology, and Culture Page -- extensive compilation of links for all aspects of technology and its history.
General Issues
- Daniel Chandler, Technological or Media Determinism.
- Hubert L. Dreyfus, Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm Technology.
- Samuel Ebersole, Media Determinism in Cyberspace -- Electronic book about the history of technology and its problems, with an excellent discussion of the view that technology is neutral.
- Andrew Feenberg, From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads.
- Andrew Feenberg, Marcuse or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology.
- Andrew Feenberg, Selected Articles , (found at Andrew Feeberg site)
- Andrew Feenberg, Summary Remarks on My Approach to the Philosophical Study of Technology.
- Larry A. Hickman, Teche and Politeia Revisited: Pragmatic Paths to Technological Revolution.
- Scott London, Book Review: In the Absence of the Sacred:The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations, by Jerry Mander.
- Carmen Luke, Technological Literacy.
- Leo Marx, Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? (.pdf)
- Media and Communication Studies Site.
- The Technology Of Uselessness
- What Is Culture? -- Definitions of culture. A great site to begin an analysis of the relation between technology and culture.
Specific Topics:
Appropriate Technology and Consumption
- R.Cronk, Consumerism and the New Capitalism
- Anip Shah, Consumption and Consumerism
- Mark Sagoff, Do We Consume Too Much? -- from The Atlantic Monthly.
Alienation
Art and Music
- The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective
- Australian Network for Art and Technology
- Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
- Electronic Music -- List of online sources.
- Electronic Music Foundation
- Jonathan Friday, Digital Imaging, Photographic Representation, and Aesthetics.
- Derrick de Kerckhove, Network Art and Virtual Communities.
- Melissa McMahon, Beauty: Machinic Repetition in the Age of Art.
- Music, Mind, and Machine
Artificial Intelligence
- John McCarthy, Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines.
- Mark Wrathall and Sean Kelly, Existential Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Automobile
- Carfree.com -- Carfree cities past, present, and future. Solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.
Cloning
Communication
- Allan Mazur, Technical Risk in the Mass Media.
- Mark Poster, Postmodern Virtualities.
Community
- Langdon Winner, Cyberlibertarian Myths and the Prospects for Community.
Computers and Culture
- Nancy Kaplan, What Neil Postman has to say ...
- Jaishree K. Odin, Computers and Cultural Transformation.
- Neil Postman, Informing Ourselves to Death.
- Stephen L. Talbott, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst.
- Stephen L. Talbott, editor, NetFuture: Science, Technology and Human Responsibility.
Corporations
Democracy
- Richard E. Sclove, Democracy and Technology (excerpts).
- Richard E. Sclove, Town Meetings on Technology.
Education
- Tad Beckman, Using the Term Technology.
- Stephen L. Talbott, Children of the Machine, Chapter 14 of The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst.
- Langdon Winner, The Handwriting on the Wall: Resisting Technoglobalism's Assault on ducation.
Environment
- Tad Beckman, Environmental Philosophy: Course Notes.
- Tad Beckman, An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy
- Victor Margolin, The Politics of the Artificial.
- Ben Matthews (Compiler), Climate Engineering.
- Matt Ridley and Bobbi S. Low, Can Selfishness Save the Environment?
- Raphael Sassower, Intellectual Responsibility for an Ecology Agenda.
- Stephen L. Talbott, On Being Responsible for Earth.
- United Nations Environment Programme
Film
- Film and Philosophy
- Film and Philosophy
- Film-Philosophy Journal
- Daniel Chandler, Imagining Futures, Dramatizing Fears: The Portrayal of Technology in Literature and Film.
- Metropolis -- Internet Web Sites
Gene Technology
- The Human Genome Project.
- Darryl R. J. Macer, Shaping Genes: Ethics, Law and Science of Using New Genetic Technology in Medicine and Agriculture.
Health and Medicine
- Nigel Dower, Biotechnology and the Third World.
- Eric Matthews, Medical Technology and the Concept of Healthcare.
Heidegger and Technology
- Tad Beckman, Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics.
- Hubert L. Dreyfus and Charles Spinosa, Highway Bridges and Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How to Affirm.
- Andrew Feenberg, From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads.
- Paul Gorner, Heidegger, Phenomenology, and the Essence of Technology.
- Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)
- Mark Okrent, Why The Mind Isn't a Program (But Some Digital Computer Might Have a Mind).
- Jean-Michel Salanskis, Die Wissenschaft denkt nicht.
- Yu Xuanmeng, Heidegger on Technology, Alienation, and Destiny
History of Technology
- AAT Technology Timeline
- Ancient Roman Technology
- History of Technology Resources Available on the Internet via ICE
- Timeline Technology
- Voice of the Shuttle: Technology of Writing Page
Human Nature
- John Haldane, Could the Soul Be Software?
Internet
- Gordon Graham, Anarchy and the Internet.
- Gordon Graham, Implications of the Internet: a preliminary survey.
- Andrew Leonard, Will the Net spawn intelligent life?
- National Research Council, Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond.
- Langdon Winner, Who will we be in cyberspace?
Language
- John C. Mallery, Roger Hurwitz, Gavan Duffy, Hermeneutics: From Textual Explication to Computer Understanding?
Media
Philosophy of Technology
- Frederick Ferré, Philosophy and Technology After Twenty Years.
- Don Ihde, Philosophy of Technology, 1975 - 1995.
- Don Ihde, Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction
Politics
Printing
- James A. Dewar, The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead (pdf file)
- Daniela Lesley Evans, A Critical Examination of Claims Concerning The ‘Impact’ of Print.
Religion
- Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom.
Robots
- Matthew Elton, Robots and Rights: The Ethical Demands of Artificial Agents.
Technocracy
Technophobia and Technophilia
- Chad Bagwell, The Current Information Revolution, Luddism, and Johnny Mnemonic?
- Michael G Campion, Technophilia and Technophobia.
- Is technology taking over the world?.
- Hugh Mc Donald, Asceticism and the Electronic Media: Technophilia and Technophobia in the Perspective of Christian Philosophy.
- Michael Pellauer, Computer Love: Technophilia in the Real World
- Beatriz Santana, Introducing the Technophobia/Technophilia Debate: Some Comments on the Information Age.
- Technolrealism Overview
- Unabomber's Manifesto
- Luddism, Neo-Luddites, and Dystopian Views of Technology
- Social Criticism Review -- many critiques of technology
- David Wright, Technophobia: A Small Band of Hopefuls Battles the Giant of Progress.
Television and Human Experience
- Bruce E. Levine, Does TV Help Make Americans Passive and Accepting of Authority?
- Ron Kaufman, Review of Jerry Mander's Four Arguments For The Elimination Of Television.
- Kill Your Television
Transportation
The Virtual Neighborhood
- Anne Beamish, Communities On-Line: Community Based Computer Networks.
- Tad Beckman, The Virtual Neighborhood and Its Social Implications.
- Leigh Clayton, Are there Virtual Communities?
- Jamie Owen Daniel, Virtual Communities?: Public Spheres and Public Intellectuals on the Internet: A response to Michael Bérubé.
- Mike Jones, Computer Technmology, Cyberspace, and Culture.
- Jaishree K. Odin, Computers and Cultural Transformation, by University of Hawaii at Manoa.
- Rest in virtual peace -- Article about virtual cemeteries in Japan.
- Howard Rheingold -- links to his articles and books on the virtual community, including The Virtual Community.
War
- Jane E. Gibish (Compiler), Revolution in Military Affairs: A Selected Bibliography.
Women and Technology
- Kaitlin Duck Sherwood, Women In the Engineering Industry.
- Ellen Spertus, Women and Computer Science.
Work and Leisure
Bibliographies and Miscellaneous Sites
- Exploring Technoculture: Computers, Society, Pedagogy: An Annotated Bibliography, by David Silver American Studies U of Maryland, College Park
- The Internet Public Library
- Ethics and the Internet: Techno-Cultural Media Resources
Electronic Journals
- CTheory
- Ereignis: Heidegger Links
- Journal of Technology Education
- Journal of Technology Studies Home Page
- Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
- Techné: Journal of Technology Studies
- Technology Review
Online Courses and Syllabi
Societies and Research Institutes
- Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy Technology and Society
- The Center For Democracy and Technology
- Global Village: The Institute for Appropriate Technology
- The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
- Institute for Theology, Technology and Culture
- The Loka Institute
- Scientists for Global Responsibility
- Society for the History of Technology
- Technology and Culture, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Print Publications
- Day, Richard B.; Beiner, Ronald; and Masciulli, Joseph. Democratic Theory and Technological Society. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990.
- Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Bluff. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1990.
- Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.
- Hickman, Larry A. John Dewey's Prgamatic Technology. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Ihde, Don. Existential Technics. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.
- Ihde, Don. Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Teich, Albert H., Editor. Technology and the Future. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
- Watkins, Bruce O., and Meador, Roy. Technology and Human Values: Collision and Solution. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Inc. 1978.
- Winner, Langdon. Autonomous Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992.
- Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor:A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.
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