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Author Böhme, Gernot.

Title Invasive technification : critical essays in the philosophy of technology / Gernot Böhme ; translated by Cameron Shingleton.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2012]
♭2012

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 261 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Technology -- Philosophy.
Technology -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Invasive Technisierung. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012006512
Other Form: Print version: Böhme, Gernot. Invasive Technisierung. English. Invasive technification. London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2012], ♭2012 9781441149015 (DLC) 2012001745 (OCoLC)768796590
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