Engineering as "Technology of Technology" and the Subjugated Technical Practice.

This article calls into question the simplistic identification of modern technology with quantitative efficiency in order to develop three main themes. First, I establish that technology, broadly construed, is the use of knowledge and resources to meet specific human needs. Accordingly, dominant tec...

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Publicado en:Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 86 - 115
Autor principal: Shih, Bono Po-Jen
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Publicado: Philosophy Documentation Center 2023
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      ab: This article calls into question the simplistic identification of modern technology with quantitative efficiency in order to develop three main themes. First, I establish that technology, broadly construed, is the use of knowledge and resources to meet specific human needs. Accordingly, dominant technical practice that favors efficiency and numerical criteria and discriminates against other technologies should more appropriately be called "technology of technology." Second, I delineate how dominant practice in engineering is an exemplar of technology of technology, when it becomes socially ambitious while remaining technically provincial and bears upon our personal and institutional life. Third, I illustrate what I call the "subjugated technical practice," which exists under the rule of the dominant technical practice. Recognizing the importance of subjugated technical practices to engineering, I propose the concept of "critical technology of technology," which is intended to advance technological alternatives and make critique an essential part of our technological world.
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