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Tables of Contents for The Critical Theory of Technology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: The Parliament of Things
3
23
Technology and the End of History
3
2
Instrumental and Substantive Theories of Technology
5
3
Technology Bound and Unbound
8
5
Critical Theory of Technology
13
2
Civilizational Change
15
3
The Critical Alternatives
18
5
PART I MARXISM
Minimalist Marxism
23
19
Exploitation or Domination
23
2
Labor Process Theory
25
5
Three Critiques of Technology
30
6
The Preconditions of Socialism
36
3
Critique and Transition
39
3
Contradictions of the Transition
42
23
The Concept of Ambivalence
42
3
From Social to Political Revolution
45
5
The Origins of ``Substitutionism''
50
5
Rethinking the Transition
55
2
Technical Politics
57
3
The Limits of Marxism
60
5
PART II ACTION
The Bias of Technology
65
26
Means and Ends
65
3
Marcuse and Foucault
68
4
Dystopian Paradoxes
72
6
The Technical Code
78
5
Technological Figurations
83
8
Postindustrial Discourses
91
26
The Ambivalence of the Computer
91
2
Automation and Ideology
93
3
Computers, Communication, and Artificial Intelligence
96
5
Toward a New Paradigm
101
7
The Myth of Automatism
108
3
Technology and Finitude
111
6
PART III CULTURE
The Dilemma of Development
117
23
The Thesis of Convergence
117
4
Technological Determinism
121
6
The Cultural Perspective
127
4
The Soviet System
131
3
A Pluralistic Model of Change
134
6
The Promise of Civilizational Change
140
23
The Transition to Socialism
140
3
Ethics and Economics
143
5
Technology and the Distribution of Culture
148
3
Socialization
151
3
Democratization
154
3
Innovation
157
6
PART IV CONCLUSION
The Critical Theory of Technology
163
36
The Critique of Scientific-Technical Rationality
163
3
Reason and Domination
166
5
Toward a Successor Techno-Science?
171
5
Habermas and the Neutrality of Technology
176
3
The Theory of Formal Bias
179
4
Decontextualizing Practice
183
5
The Dialectic of Technology
188
3
The Concretization of Technology
191
4
Forward to Nature
195
4
Notes
199
26
Index
225