The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores how humanity might, through technology, establish a more ethical relationship with the world.Examining the philosophy of writers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, Lyotard, Virilio, and Zizek, and cultural movements such as Italian Futurism, this book marks a timely intervention in critical theory debates. The broad scope of the book will be of vital interest to those in the fields of philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies, politics and communications.
Author(s): Simon Cooper
Series: Routledge Studies in Science Technology and Society
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 192
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction: in the service of the machine?......Page 10
Beyond enframing: Heidegger and the question concerning technology......Page 27
Walter Benjamin and technology: social form and the recovery of aura......Page 53
Futurism and the politics of a technological being in the world......Page 76
Between totalitarianism and heterogeneity: Lyotard and the postmodern condition......Page 97
Paul Virilio: overcoming inertia?......Page 123
Psychoanalysis, cyberspace and its discontents: Turkle, iek, Brennan......Page 147
Conclusion......Page 169
Notes......Page 175
Bibliography......Page 180
Index......Page 186
