Ferdinand Braudel, Vol I: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th – 18th Century, The (University of California Press, 1992) Structure of Everday Life An early and highly influential attempt to look at the from longue durée, one of the founders of the Annales school, which advocated long-range history. Basically, Braudel looks at things that didn’t change. Sept. 28 Introducing philosophy and criticism of technology Now that we have a number of empirical studies in mind, we turn to philosophy and criticism of technology. Martin Heidegger, Question Concerning Technology,” in The Question “The (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Concerning Technology and Other Essays 2013) This is a difficult to read piece, but it is essential to know, because it serves as the backdrop for the work of many later thinkers. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced 2nd ed. (Beacon Press, 1991) Industrial Society, Marcuse was a student of Heidegger, and is one of the most influential critics of technology in the American context. This piece was influential in the not fold, spindle, or mutilate” movement of the 1970s. “do For further reading: See also John MacQuarrie, Heidegger and Christianity: The Hensely Hensen (Continuum International Publishing Group 1994). Despite Lectures 1993-1994 the title, this little book has little to do with Christianity, but is instead the clearest introduction to Heidegger, and especially to his thinking on technology. Oct. 5: Technology and the human-created world Don Ihde, (Bloomington: Technology and the Lifeworld: From garden to earth Indiana University Press, 1990), selections. Robert Rosenberg, et al, eds., Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) Human-Technology Relations We will read the introduction, and pieces by Borgmann and Feenberg. Please also select two chapters that are of interest to you. For further reading: Paul Virilio, (Verso, 2006) The Information Bomb This is the work that brought Virilio to the attention of American scholars.
Ferdinand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th – 18th Century, Vol I: The Structure of Everday Life (University of California Press, 1992) An early and highly influential attempt to look at the longue durée, from one of the founders of the Annales school, which advocated long-range history. Basically, Braudel looks at things that didn’t change. Sept. 28 Introducing philosophy and criticism of technology Now that we have a number of empirical studies in mind, we turn to philosophy and criticism of technology. Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology,” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2013) This is a difficult to read piece, but it is essential to know, because it serves as the backdrop for the work of many later thinkers. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, 2nd ed. (Beacon Press, 1991) Marcuse was a student of Heidegger, and is one of the most influential critics of technology in the American context. This piece was influential in the “do not fold, spindle, or mutilate” movement of the 1970s. For further reading: See also John MacQuarrie, Heidegger and Christianity: The Hensely Hensen Lectures 1993-1994 (Continuum International Publishing Group 1994). Despite the title, this little book has little to do with Christianity, but is instead the clearest introduction to Heidegger, and especially to his thinking on technology. Oct. 5: Technology and the human-created world Don Ihde, Technology and the Lifeworld: From garden to earth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), selections. Robert Rosenberg, et al, eds., Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) We will read the introduction, and pieces by Borgmann and Feenberg. Please also select two chapters that are of interest to you. For further reading: Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb (Verso, 2006) This is the work that brought Virilio to the attention of American scholars.
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