Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
ISBN :
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231121057
Lewis Mumford was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with technics. This text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Mass media
ISBN :
An in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric times. Mumford criticizes the modern trend of technology, which emphasizes constant, unrestricted expansion, production, and replacement. He contends that these goals work against technical perfection, durability, social efficiency, and overall human satisfaction. Modern technology fails to produce lasting, quality products by using devices such as consumer credit, installment buying, non-functioning and defective designs, built-in fragility, and frequent superficial "fashion" changes. "Without constant enticement by advertising," he writes, "production would slow down and level off to normal replacement demand. Otherwise many products could reach a plateau of efficient design which would call for only minimal changes from year to year."
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
A study of the development of the personality and the community.
Author : Daniel Ray White
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791437872
Applies postmodern theory to the working assumptions and consequent practices of therapy in various disciplines, from clinical psychology to schooling.
Author : John S. Auerbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 113545194X
there are very few books on the market that take the position that psychoanalysis and empirical research can be combined and that provide examples of empirical research in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory all of the editors are published academics in the areas covered by the book. Furthermore, each of them has worked extensively with Sid Blatt.
Author : Belén Laspra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319719580
This volume features essays that detail the distinctive ways authors and researchers in Spanish speaking countries express their thoughts on contemporary philosophy of technology. Written in English but fully capturing a Spanish perspective, the essays bring the views and ideas of pioneer authors and many new ones to an international readership. Coverage explores key topics in the philosophy of technology, the ontological and epistemological aspects of technology, development and innovation, and new technological frontiers like nanotechnology and cloud computing. In addition, the book features case studies on philosophical queries. Readers will discover such voices as Miguel Ángel Quintanilla and Javier Echeverría, who are main references in the current landscape of philosophy of technology both in Spain and Spanish speaking countries; José Luis Luján, who is a leading Spanish author in research about technological risk; and Emilio Muñoz, former head of the Spanish National Research Council and an authority on Spanish science policy. The volume also covers thinkers in American Spanish speaking countries, such as Jorge Linares, an influential researcher in ethical issues; Judith Sutz, who has a very recognized work on social issues concerning innovation; Carlos Osorio, who focuses his work on technological determinism and the social appropriation of technology; and Diego Lawler, an important researcher in the ontological aspects of technology.
Author : Benjamen Gussen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 981136950X
This book uses historical analysis, constitutional economics, and complexity theory to furnish an account of city subsidiarity as a legal, ethical, political, and economic principle. The book contemplates subsidiarity as a constitutional principle, where cities would benefit from much wider local autonomy. Constitutional economics suggests an optimal limit to jurisdictional footprints (territories). This entails preference for political orders where sovereignty is shared between different cities rather states where capital cities dominate. The introduction of city subsidiarity as a constitutional principle holds the key to economic prosperity in a globalizing world. Moreover, insights from complexity theory suggest subsidiarity is the only effective response to the ‘problem of scale.’ It is a fitness trait that prevents highly complex systems from collapsing. The nation-state is a highly complex system within which cities function as ‘attractors.’ The collapse of such systems would ensue if there were strong coupling between attractors. Such coupling obtains under legal monism. Only subsidiarity can make the eventuality of collapse improbable. The emergent and self-organizing properties of subsidiarity entail a shift in policy emphasis towards cities with a wide margin of autonomy.
Author : Thomas Shevory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313002215
Negotiating the terrain between techno-optimism and eco-pessimism, this work establishes the political connections between technologies of the body, property, and the environment. Specific technologies of the body, such as surrogacy and in vitro fertilization, are examined in relation to their political and legal constructions. Next, Shevory analyzes private property as an evolving historical concept that implicates environmental and biological transformations with particular attention given to biotechnology cases. He then considers the body's appearance and its alterations through plastic surgery, dieting, or piercing as political constructions. A theoretical overview specifies technoprogressivist (liberal) and technophobic traditions, especially as they have evolved in the United States during the second half of the 20th-century. Drawing upon critical and feminist theories, Shevory specifies a body politics that negotiates the terrain between these two traditions. Body technologies and markets, he argues, interact to consolidate and reinforce dominant systems of power, while at the same time resisting and sometimes subverting them. Technology is often a factor in the fragmentation of evolving political ideological discourses on the left and right; however, the resulting instabilities create the potential for both the expansion of global capital and its subversion via democratic interventions.
Author : Leah A Lievrouw
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412918732
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