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13. “The Politics of Pessimism: Science and Technology Circa 1968” (1994) by Everett Mendelsohn: https://t.co/jIQEtnEz3t
Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism: Introduction
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 The Idea of “Technology” and Postmodern Pessimism
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 Technology and the Illusion of the Escape from Politics
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 Joseph Glanvill’s Plus Ultra and Beyond: Or How to Delay the Rise of Modern Science
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 A Victorian Thunderstorm: Lightning Protection and Technological Pessimism in the Nineteenth Century
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 When Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies: Three Phases in the Diffusion and Perception of American Telegraphy
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 On the Notion of Technology as Ideology: Prospects
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 Belated Pessimism: Technology and Twentieth-Century German Conservative Intellectuals
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Time and Technology in Heidegger’s Thought
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 The Politics of Pessimism: Science and Technology Circa 1968
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 The Cultural Contradictions of High Tech: Or the Many Ironies of Contemporary Technological Optimism