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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 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |