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Technical Fouls John Kurt Jacobsen

Technical Fouls By John Kurt Jacobsen

Technical Fouls by John Kurt Jacobsen

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Summary

This book examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. It offers a theoretical synthesis of critiques of technology and a theory of how ideas are employed by groups in order to enhance their own power.

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Technical Fouls: Democracy And Technological Change by John Kurt Jacobsen

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

About John Kurt Jacobsen

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.

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9780367318192
9780367318192
0367318199
Technical Fouls: Democracy And Technological Change by John Kurt Jacobsen
John Kurt Jacobsen
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-09-13
208
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