Technology and the Trajectory of Myth
Author | : David Grant |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2017-12-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781785369971 |
ISBN-13 | : 1785369970 |
Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book presents an entirely new way of understanding technology, as the successor to the dominant ideologies that have underpinned the thought and practices of the Western world. Like the preceding ideologies of Deity, State and Market, technology displays the features of a modern myth, promising to deal with our existential concerns on condition of our subjection to them. Utilising robust empirical evidence, Lyria Bennett Moses and David Grant argue that the pathway out of this mythological maze is the production of means to establish a new sense of political, corporate and personal self-responsibility.