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Technical fouls : democratic dilemmas and technological change
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Technical fouls : democratic dilemmas and technological change

Author: John Kurt Jacobsen
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2000.
Series: Interventions--theory and contemporary politics.
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"What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Kurt Jacobsen
ISBN: 0813319994 9780813319995
OCLC Number: 43728972
Description: ix, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Technology as a Cultural System --
Futurism Isn't What It Used to Be --
Autonomous Technology --
The Phantom of Technocracy --
Mumford's Megamachine --
Interrogating Science --
Critical Theory and Technological Society --
A Participatory Democracy? --
The Paradox of Technological "Fixes," --
The Specter of Automation --
High Tech: Military Origins, Commercial Imperatives --
Riding the Fifth Wave: Radical Critiques --
Critiques of the Sussex Critics --
The Ambiguities of Technical Change --
Shaping Technology: A "Tricky Matter," --
Dilemma or Problem? --
Aimless Accuracy: Technology and the Military --
From Stirrups to Smart Bombs --
The Second World War --
Lessons of Military Keynesianism --
Enabling Vietnam: Technology, Arrogance, and Attrition --
Creeping Toward Star Wars --
Does Technology Prevent Peace Dividends? --
Conclusion: Smart Weapons, Dumb Choices? --
Weeding Them Out: The Curious Case of Eugenics and Genetic Engineering --
The Advent of Eugenics --
Tainted Breeds, Tainted Deeds --
Degeneration and Its Discontents --
Sterile Environments --
With Liberty, or Sterilization, for All --
The Third Reich and "Life Unworthy of Life," --
After the Holocaust --
Emancipating Nature: Ecology and Ideology --
Eco-Responsibility or Rain-Forest Chic? --
Third World Repercussions: China and Brazil --
Western Woes and Corporate Wiles --
The Politics of Ecological Logic: Bookchin, Gorz, and Beck --
Feminist Interrogations --
Reconnoitering the Battlefield.
Series Title: Interventions--theory and contemporary politics.
Responsibility: John Kurt Jacobsen.
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"What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. Students and scholars of science, technology, and society should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today."--BOOK JACKET.

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