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Criticism of technology is an analysis of adverse impacts of industrial and digital technologies.[1]

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  1. 67 relations: A Cyborg Manifesto, Academy, Anarcho-primitivism, Andrew Feenberg, Anti-Tech Revolution, Automation, Chellis Glendinning, Chernobyl disaster, Critical theory, Deep ecology, Derrick Jensen, Digital electronics, Donna Haraway, Ecofeminism, Fifth Estate (periodical), Frankfurt School, Fredy Perlman, Fukushima nuclear accident, Günther Anders, Gilles Deleuze, Herbert Marcuse, Hierarchy, History of science and technology, Hito Steyerl, Home computer, Ivan Illich, Jacques Ellul, Joanna Bryson, John Zerzan, Joseph Weizenbaum, Kate Crawford, Kirkpatrick Sale, Langdon Winner, Layla AbdelRahim, Lewis Mumford, Luddite, Martin Heidegger, Medicalization, Medication, Mike Cooley (engineer), Naomi Klein, Neil Postman, Neo-Luddism, Neo-Marxism, Oswald Spengler, Paradigm shift, Pentti Linkola, Philosophy of technology, Postdevelopment theory, Refrigerator, ... Expand index (17 more) »

  2. Criticism of science
  3. Criticisms
  4. Philosophy of technology
  5. Technology

A Cyborg Manifesto

"A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1985 in the Socialist Review (US).

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Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership).

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Anarcho-primitivism

Anarcho-primitivism, also known as anti-civilization anarchism, is an anarchist critique of civilization that advocates a return to non-civilized ways of life through deindustrialization, abolition of the division of labor or specialization, abandonment of large-scale organization and all technology other than prehistoric technology and the dissolution of agriculture. Criticism of technology and anarcho-primitivism are criticism of science.

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Andrew Feenberg

Andrew Feenberg (born 1943) is an American philosopher.

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Anti-Tech Revolution

Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How is a 2016 non-fiction book by Ted Kaczynski.

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Automation

Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines.

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Chellis Glendinning

Chellis Glendinning (born 1947) is an author and activist.

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Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.

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Critical theory

A critical theory is any approach to humanities and social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to attempt to reveal, critique, and challenge power structures.

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Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and argues that modern human societies should be restructured in accordance with such ideas.

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Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen (born December 19, 1960) is an American ecophilosopher, writer, author, teacher and environmentalist in the anarcho-primitivist tradition, though he rejects the label "anarchist".

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Digital electronics

Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them.

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Donna Haraway

Donna J. Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies.

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Ecofeminism

Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism and political ecology.

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Fifth Estate (periodical)

Fifth Estate is a U.S. periodical, based in Detroit, Michigan, begun in 1965.

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Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy.

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Fredy Perlman

Fredy Perlman (1934–1985) was an American author, publisher, and activist.

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Fukushima nuclear accident

The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan which began on 11 March 2011.

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Günther Anders

Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern, 12 July 1902 – 17 December 1992) was a German-born philosopher, journalist and critical theorist.

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Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art.

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Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German–American philosopher, social critic, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.

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Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.

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History of science and technology

The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history that examines the understanding of the natural world (science) and the ability to manipulate it (technology) at different points in time. Criticism of technology and history of science and technology are technology and technology systems.

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Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl (born 1 January 1966) is a German filmmaker, moving image artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary.

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Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.

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Ivan Illich

Ivan Dominic Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic.

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Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul (January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor.

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Joanna Bryson

Joanna Joy Bryson (born 1965) is professor at Hertie School in Berlin.

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John Zerzan

John Edward Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist author.

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Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum (8 January 1923 – 5 March 2008) was a German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT.

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Kate Crawford

Kate Crawford (born 1974) is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.

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Kirkpatrick Sale

Kirkpatrick Sale (born June 27, 1937) is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology.

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Langdon Winner

Langdon Winner (born August 7, 1944) is Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

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Layla AbdelRahim

Layla AbdelRahim is a comparatist anthropologist and anarchoprimitivist author, whose works on narratives of civilization and wilderness have contributed to the fields of anthropology, literary and cultural studies, comparative literature, philosophy, animal studies, ecophilosophy, sociology, anarcho-primitivist thought, anarchism, epistemology, and critique of civilization, technology, and education.

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Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic.

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Luddite

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns regarding decreased pay for textile workers and a perceived reduction of output quality, and often destroyed the machines in organised raids. Criticism of technology and Luddite are criticism of science.

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 188926 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism.

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Medicalization

Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Mike Cooley (engineer)

Michael Joseph Edward Cooley (23 March 1934 – 4 September 2020) was an Irish-born engineer, writer and trade union leader, best known for his work on the social effects of technology, "Socially Useful Production" and "Human Centred Systems".

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism.

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Neil Postman

Neil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. Criticism of technology and Neil Postman are technology in society.

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Neo-Luddism

Neo-Luddism or new Luddism is a philosophy opposing many forms of modern technology. Criticism of technology and neo-Luddism are technology in society.

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Neo-Marxism

Neo-Marxism is a collection of Marxist schools of thought originating from 20th-century approaches to amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, typically by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism.

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Oswald Spengler

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German polymath whose areas of interest included history, philosophy, mathematics, science, and art, as well as their relation to his organic theory of history.

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Paradigm shift

A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.

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Pentti Linkola

Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 in Helsinki – 5 April 2020) was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman.

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Philosophy of technology

The philosophy of technology is a sub-field of philosophy that studies the nature of technology and its social effects. Criticism of technology and philosophy of technology are science and technology studies and technology.

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Postdevelopment theory

Postdevelopment theory (also post-development or anti-development or development criticism) holds that the whole concept and practice of development is a reflection of Western-Northern hegemony over the rest of the world.

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Refrigerator

A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Robotics

Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robots.

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Science and technology studies

Science and technology studies (STS) or science, technology, and society is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. Criticism of technology and science and technology studies are technology in society.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists.

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Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general. Criticism of technology and social criticism are criticisms.

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The social effects of evolutionary thought have been considerable.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Technics and Civilization

Technics and Civilization is a 1934 book by American philosopher and historian of technology Lewis Mumford.

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Technology and society

Technology, society and life or technology and culture refers to the inter-dependency, co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production of technology and society upon one another. Criticism of technology and technology and society are technology, technology in society and technology systems.

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Technopoly

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a book by Neil Postman published in 1992 that describes the development and characteristics of a "technopoly". Criticism of technology and Technopoly are technology in society.

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Ted Kaczynski

Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.

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The Technological Society

The Technological Society is a book on the subject of technique by French philosopher, theologian and sociologist Jacques Ellul.

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Theodore Roszak (scholar)

Theodore Roszak (November 15, 1933 – July 5, 2011) was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay.

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Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalization author.

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Vilém Flusser

Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist.

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Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (born 1969) is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

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2007–2008 financial crisis

The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.

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See also

Criticism of science

Criticisms

Philosophy of technology

Technology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_technology

Also known as Criticisms of technology, Critique of technology, Critiques of technology, Technology critique.

, Rhetoric, Robotics, Science and technology studies, Situationist International, Social criticism, Social effects of evolutionary theory, Software, Technics and Civilization, Technology and society, Technopoly, Ted Kaczynski, The Technological Society, Theodore Roszak (scholar), Vandana Shiva, Vilém Flusser, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, 2007–2008 financial crisis.