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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Winner, Langdon
Titre(s) : The whale and the reactor [Texte imprimé] : a search for limits in an age of high technology / Langdon Winner
Édition : 2nd ed.
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI- 226 p.) ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the
Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York. He has a blog and tweets liberally. First published in 1986, The Whale
and the Reactor has been assigned for years. This edition includes a passionately
argued new chapter entitled Beyond Techno-narcissism as well as a new Preface and
a postscript describing the now planned decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon reactor
in California"
Sujet(s) : Philosophie de la technique
Technologie -- Aspect politique
Technologie -- Société
Indice(s) Dewey :
601 (23e éd.) = Technologie - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226692548. - ISBN 022669254X (br.). - ISBN 9780226692685 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467369889
Notice n° :
FRBNF46736988
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A Philosophy of Technology ; Technologies as Forms of Life ; Do Artifacts Have
Politics? ; Technë and Politeia ; Technology: Reform and Revolution ; Building
the Better Mousetrap ; Decentralization Clarified ; Mythinformation ; Excess and
Limit ; The State of Nature Revisited ; Risk Assessment: A Hazardous Pursuit ;
Brandy, Cigars, and Human Values ; The Whale and the Reactor ; Beyond Techno-narcissism:
Self and Other in the Digital Public Realm.
