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Confronting Technopoly

Confronting Technopoly

Phil Rose

(2017)

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Abstract

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a number of contributors from different disciplinary perspectives to analyse technopoly both as a concept and as it is seen and understood in contemporary society. Contributors present both analysis of and strategies for managing techno-social conflict, and they also open up a number of fruitful new lines of thought around emerging technological, social, and even psychological forms.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Cover
Hlaf Title i
Title iii
Copyright iv
Contents vii
Introduction: The Question Concerning Technopoly 1
Part I: Contextualization 9
Chapter 1: Contextualizing Technopoly 11
Part II: Digital Manifestations 31
Chapter 2: The Omnipresent Opiate: Rethinking Internet Addiction in the Network Era 33
Chapter 3: Probing the Media Ecology of Self-Tracking Technologies: A Postmanist Critique and Defence 53
Chapter 4: Navigating the Mobile Village 71
Chapter 5: Insolent Networks: The Auto-Mated Social Life 91
Part III: Ideology and Geopolitical Considerations 115
Chapter 6: Striking Symbols: Re-Sounding Words from Leonard Cohen to Neil Postman 117
Chapter 7: Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing! The End of Progress and the Beginning of a Third Way 129
Chapter 8: Divinizing Technology and Violence: Technopoly, the Warfare State, and the Revolution in Military Affairs 141
Chapter 9: Posthuman Postmanism: Confronting Technopoly with Deep Media Ecology 163
Part IV: Confrontations: From Education to Liberation 181
Chapter 10: Postman’s Hope: Rethinking the Role of Education in Technopoly 183
Chapter 11: The New Social Media Curriculum: Confronting Technopoly with Education 199
Chapter 12: Black Mountain College: Experiments in Form 213
Chapter 13: The Arts of Liberation in the Age of Technopoly 229
About the Authors 245
Acknowledgements 249
Index 251
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