Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought

Winner, Langdon

ISBN 10: 026223078X / ISBN 13: 9780262230780

Published by The MIT Press, 1977

About this Item

Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ has mild edge wear and chipping as well as sun fading along the spine, but remains in overall good condition and is now housed in a protective mylar cover. Book is bound in black cloth over boards with silver lettering down the spine. Covers are crisp and clean. Corners are square. Binding is tight and secure. Sparse pencil annotations throughout, thought they do not effect readability. Pages have a very mild tine, but are otherwise crisp and clean. 386 pages. The MIT Press. No publication date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1977. A good copy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026223078X
• ISBN 13: 9780262230780
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 8 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our standard conceptions of technology reveal a disorientation that borders on dissociation from reality. And as long as we lack the ability to make our situation intelligible, all of the "data" in the world will make no difference. ;From the Introduction

About the Author

Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.