Minor wear to cover and edges, with some mild corner curling. Sun fading to spine. Pen note to front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean interior with sound binding. 386 pgs. The MIT Press. 8th printing. 1992.

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Title

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

Publisher

MIT Press

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0262730499

ISBN 13

9780262730495

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Good

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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

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

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