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Broken technologies : the humanist as engineer : an Introduction

In English

Författare

  • Fernando Flores

Summary, in English

There are many possible definitions of “technology” and I will discuss some of these in this book. However, in this introduction let me use a definition of Svante Lindqvist who defines technology very intuitively as “those activities, directed towards the satisfaction of human wants, which produce change in the material world.” He says also “the distinction between human “wants” and more limited human “needs” is crucial, for we do not use technology only to satisfy our essential material requirements.” Consequently, from this perspective, a technology that is “broken” could be defined as those activities, directed towards the satisfaction of human wants that are intended to produce changes in the material world that either do not manage to satisfy these wants or do not produce changes in the material world, or both.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1-7

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Broken technologies : the humanist as engineer

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Department of History of Ideas and Science, Lund University

Ämne

  • History of Ideas

Nyckelord

  • Don Ihde
  • Heidegger
  • Intentionality
  • Meaning
  • Phenomenology
  • Broken Technology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-91-633-3683-6