Technical Fouls

Democracy And Technological Change

AvJohn Kurt Jacobsen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367318192

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

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John Kurt Jacobsen is research associate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Chasing Progress: Ideology, Industry and Dependent Development in Ireland.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction -- Technology as a Cultural System -- The Specter of Automation -- Aimless Accuracy -- Weeding Them Out -- Emancipating Nature -- Epilogue