Invasive technification : critical essays in the philosophy of technology / Gernot Böhme ; translated by Cameron Shingleton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Technology has extended its reach to the human body - not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense too. Technological infrastructure and the instutions of a technified society today determine what perception is, how we communicate and what forms of social life are possible. A fundamental new conception of technology is therefore required. Technology can no longer be seen simply as a means of efficiently attaining pre-established ends. Rather, it needs to be considered as a total structure, somethi.

1. Introduction -- Invasive technification -- The philosophy of technology -- 2. Science, technology, civilization -- Civilization in the age of technoscience -- Knowledge society -- Trust in modernity -- Free scientific enquiry and its limits -- Borderline situations in technological civilization -- 3. Understanding technology: Use and entertainment -- Technical gadgetry -- Technology in the life of an everyday philologist -- 4. The technification of human relations -- Technostructures: Society and nature -- Anthropological change in a technological world -- The technification of perception -- Genetics, biotechnology and human self-understanding -- 5. The technification of nature -- Artificial nature -- Nature in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Conclusion -- 6. Critique of Technology -- Guided by an interest in rational conditions -- Computers in schools: Critical reflections on culture, technology and education -- Thinking anti-cyclically -- Cultural resources for coping with technology -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The last man as Übermensch.

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