Thinking about Technology
Thinking About Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality. Gil Germain. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2017. Gil Germain’s Thinking About Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality…
Globalization, Justice, and Technology: Cosmopolitan Justice Reconsidered
Introduction The prospect of universal justice is alluring. Right-minded persons would agree that a world whose entire population were treated fairly and equitably would constitute a vast…
Scientism Unbound: Baudrillard and the Critique of Technology (Part II)
These other types of repercussion are less tangible forms of blowback, such as disease or environmental disaster, but are equally worrisome. They are perceptual in nature and…
Scientism Unbound: Baudrillard and the Critique of Technology (Part I)
“The damage of scientism is done.”1 So said Eric Voegelin in 1948, amidst the afterglow of the allied defeat of fascism on the continent. The damage he…
“It’s Not Yours To Do With What You Like!” A Critical Reading of George Saunders’ Jon
Technology will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.…