Catastrophic technology in Cold War political thought /
"In the mid-twentieth century, a certain idea of technology emerged in the work of many influential political theorists: a critical, catastrophic concept of technology, entangled with the apocalyptic fears fuelled by two all-consuming world wars and the looming nuclear threat. Drawing on the wo...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Catastrophic Technology in Modernity
- Cold War Critics of Technology
- Historical Narratives of Technological Development
- Technologies of Destruction: The Shadow of the Bomb
- Technologies of Production and the Rise of the Machine
- The Veil of Technology: Media, Propaganda, and Ideology
- Technologies of the Body: Man as Raw Material
- Technology and Worldliness: Nature and the Technological Artifice
- Conclusion: The Lasting Influence of Catastrophic Technology?