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at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in November 19 99, to this
volume, the editors ... embodies and enacts certain key features of
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The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and
Technology
Thomas J. Misa
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The Compel...
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... study of modernity and technology requires
such a bridging of the micro and the macro, of the abstract and general
and the concrete and empirical, of the large and diffuse and the small
and singular.
The ... of connecting the topics of modernity and
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ies, is the problem of connectin...
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facts. Concepts such as “rationality,” which technology ... science.
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Technologies of Modernity
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complex, and striking; ... terms and show their worth. The Internet
spoke to a kind of populist capitalism in which the vested privileges of
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physical location, and to go wherever ... contradictions,
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The most salient characteristic of technology in the modern (industrial
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levels (for a full discussion see Edwards 19 96, chapter 3). Among these
factors and levels are Forrester and Everett’s ... before they left their runways
(Herken 19 83).
The MIT engineers who designed the SAGE system, on the other
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possible to the users, governments, and other parties who will feel the
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Lyotard 19 84a, 19 88, 19 93; Derrida 19 81, 19 88; Rorty 19 89).
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One way out of the impasse is to take the idea of freedom as a key
feature of technology, modernity, and development (Sen 19 92, 19 99;
Khan ... users, and recycling companies,
changing the industry’s structure and limiting free competition. The
mandatory registration of pesticides and especially th...
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... 31, 5 (May): 498– 512 .
Clunas, Craig. 19 99. Modernity Global and Local: Consumption and the Rise
of the West.” American Historical Review 10 4: 14 97 15 11.
Cockburn, Cynthia, and Susan Ormrod. 19 93. ... paramount in either case. It was only through the
“deviations” of Chinese socialism in the countryside in the 19 50s and
19 60s, and the revolt against techno...
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Deconstruction, 61, 10 9, 11 4, 18 6, 327
Delanty, Gerard, 11 0, 11 1
Democracy, 279, 286, 300, 337
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