Technology and the politics of knowledge

✍ Scribed by Andrew Feenberg

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This fine collection of essays from a diverse group of authors expounding on a wide variety of subjects presents a generous sampling of the new philosophy of technology. —Choice"... informative, original, and provocative.... Many of the writers are major players in defining the contested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies as well as critical theory and Heidegger studies." —Gerald Doppelt

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