TECHNOLOGY
AND
CULTURE
Online
Resources
and Bibliography
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Sites with Many Links
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
Alienation
Art and Music
Artificial Intelligence
Automobile
- Carfree.com -- Carfree cities
past, present, and future. Solutions to the problem of the urban automobile.
Cloning
Communication
Community
Computers and Culture
Corporations
Democracy
Education
Environment
Film
Gene Technology
Health and Medicine
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
Human Nature
Internet
Language
Media
Philosophy of Technology
Politics
Printing
Religion
Robots
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
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
Women and Technology
Work and Leisure
Bibliographies
and Miscellaneous Sites
Electronic Journals
Online Courses and Syllabi
Societies and Research Institutes
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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