-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [maxmail] Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:37:31 -0700 From: R.O. <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] https://archive.org/details/questioningtechnologyacriticalanthology <https://archive.org/details/questioningtechnologyacriticalanthology> Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology by John Zerzan <https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22John+Zerzan%22> Topics Technology <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Technology%22>, Anti-Technology <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anti-Technology%22>, Domestication <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Domestication%22>, Nature <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Nature%22>, John Zerzan <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22John+Zerzan%22>, Alice Carnes <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Alice+Carnes%22>, Morris Berman <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Morris+Berman%22>, George Bradford <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22George+Bradford%22>, David Watson <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22David+Watson%22>, Jean Baudrillard <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Jean+Baudrillard%22>, Craig Brod <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Craig+Brod%22>, David Burnham <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22David+Burnham%22>, Leonard A. Cole <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Leonard+A.+Cole%22>, Gregory Davis <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Gregory+Davis%22>, Stanley Diamond <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Stanley+Diamond%22>, Hubert L. Dreyfus <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Hubert+L.+Dreyfus%22>, Gregg Easterbrook <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Gregg+Easterbrook%22>, Jacques Ellul <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Jacques+Ellul%22>, T. Fulano <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22T.+Fulano%22>, Sally Gearhart <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Sally+Gearhart%22>, James Gorham <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22James+Gorham%22>, Joan Howe <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Joan+Howe%22>, Patrick Huyghe <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Patrick+Huyghe%22>, Jerry Mander <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Jerry+Mander%22>, Russel Means <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Russel+Means%22>, Carolyn Merchant <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Carolyn+Merchant%22>, Abbe Mowoshowitz <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Abbe+Mowoshowitz%22>, Lewis Mumford <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Lewis+Mumford%22>, Ian Reinecke <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Ian+Reinecke%22>, Robert Sardello <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Robert+Sardello%22>, Herbert Schiller <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Herbert+Schiller%22>, Lenny Seigel <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Lenny+Seigel%22>, John Markoff <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22John+Markoff%22>, Geoff Simmons <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Geoff+Simmons%22>, Eugene S. Schwartz <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Eugene+S.+Schwartz%22>, Michael Shallis <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Michael+Shallis%22>, Joseph Weizenbaum <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Joseph+Weizenbaum%22>, Langdon Winner <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Langdon+Winner%22>, Paula Zerzan <https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Paula+Zerzan%22> Collection opensource <https://archive.org/details/opensource> Language English <https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28language%3Aeng+OR+language%3A%22English%22%29> Zerzan and Carnes had assembled some of the most important critical appraisals of technology written to the date of its publication in 1991 with this book. Lewis Mumford, Jacques Ellul, Langdon Winner, Joseph Weizenbaum, Carolyn Merchant, Morris Berman, George Bradford, Jerry Mander, Stanley Diamond, Russel Means and many others offer a searing indictment of technology and its catastrophic social effects. Almost all of these essays or excerpts have appeared elsewhere, but this single text has collected many of the essential topics and critiques levied from some of the greatest critics of technoculture. Contents: *PART I: TECHNOLOGY: IT'S HISTORY AND OUR FUTURE* Question 1. How has technology developed - or encroached? Are the computer, nuclear power, and recombinant DNA comparable to the wheel, the printing press, and gunpowder - or do they represent an entirely new order? 1. Authoritarian and Democratic Technics by Lewis Mumford 2. Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum 3. The Silicon Idol by Michael Shallis Question 2. Was there a point in history when technology came to dominate the individual? How could this have happened? 4. In Search of the Primitive by Stanley Diamond 5. The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant 6. The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul Question 3. How has industrial technology adversely affected individuals, societies, and the planet as a whole? 7. We All Live in Bhopal by George Bradford 8. The High Cost of High Tech: The Dark Side of the Chip by Lenny Siegal and John Markoff 9. The Re-enchantment of the World - I by Morris Berman Question 4. What is the future of human culture with respect to technology? Is there a solution to the reality of being diminished by high tech? 10. Civilization Is Like a Jetliner by T. Fulano 11. Fighting Words on the Future of the Earth by Russell Means 12. An End to Technology by Sally Gearhart 13. The Re-enchantment of the World - II by Morris Berman *PART II: COMPUTERS AND THE INFORMED INDIVIDUAL* Question 5. Are computers a force for increased individual autonomy - or a route to a new totalitarianism? 14. The Rise of the Computer State by David Burnham 15. The Conquest of Will: Information Processing in Human Affairs by Abbe Mowoshowitz 16. Housebound by Joan Howe 17. Technostress by Craig Brod Question 6. Some in the Artificial Intelligence field claim that soon computers will not only think but also feel and possess consciousness. What are the implications of such staggering claims? 18. Of Two Minds by Patrick Huyghe 19. The Biology of Computer Life by Geoff Simons 20. What Computers Can't Do by Hubert L. Dreyfus Question 7. What does one learn from interaction with a computer? How does it affect relationships with people? 21. The Heart of a New Machine by Gregg Easterbrook 22. Technostress by Craig Brod 23. The Technological Threat to Education by Robert J. Sardello 24. Man Bytes Dog by James Gorman *PART III: TECHNOLOGY: THE WEB OF LIFE?* Question 8. Contemporary society can be described in phrases like "Information Age" and "global communications network". What do the "information" and "comunications" consist of? 25. The Implosion of Meaning in the Media and the Implosion of the Social in the Masses by Jean Baudrillard 26. Mythinformation by Langdon Winner 27. Who Knows: Information in the Age of the Fortune 500 by Herbert I. Schiller Question 9. How - and how effectively - is the technological outcome of science regulated? Is there some research and development that should be off-limits? 28. Overskill: The Decline of Technology in Modern Civilization by Eugene S. Schwartz 29. Technology - Humanism or Nihilism by Gregory H. Davis 30. Politics and the Restraint of Science by Leonard A. Cole 31. Saturn and Scientism by T. Fulano Question 10. Is technology "neutral"? 32. Industrialism and Domestication by John Zerzan and Paula Zerzan 33. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander 34. Electronic Illusions: A Skeptic's View of Our High Tech Future by Ian Reinecke 35. 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