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ISBN 10: 0192634070

ISBN 13: 9780192634078

Author: Toni Ruuska, Pasi Heikkurinen

Table of Contents:

• 1. Technology and Sustainability: An Introduction
• Technological Optimism and the Decoupling Fallacy
• Technological Neutralism and the Equity Fallacy
• Technological Pessimism and the Autonomy Fallacy
• Technological Holism and the Intellect Fallacy
• Conclusion
• Structure of the Book

Part I. Conceptualizing Technology

• 2. The Question of Technology: From Noise to Reflection
• Introduction
• Much Heat, Little Light: Outline of the Contemporary Debate about Technology
• Diagnosis: Four Common Notions of Technology
• Beauty or Beast?
• Discussion: A Path towards Self-Determination
• Conclusion: The Consequences of Noise
• 3. Earthing Philosophy of Technology: A Case for Ontological Materialism
• Introduction
• Does Nature Matter? Materialism as a Recognition of Nature
• Philosophy of Technology: What Is Technology?
• En Route to a Critical Ecological Philosophy of Technology
• Conclusion
• 4. Atechnological Experience Unfolding: Meaning for the Post-Anthropocene
• Introduction
• Experience and Technology
• Conceptualizing the Atechnology Perspective
• Conclusion
• Part I Summary: What is Technology?

Part II. Confronting Technology

• 5. Competition within Technology: A Study of Competitive Thought and Moral Growth
• Introduction
• A Violent and Mechanistic Account of Nature
• The Evolutive Mechanism, the Struggle for Existence, and Their Social Context
• Economics, Scarcity, Liberalism, and Universalist Human Nature
• Liberal and Communitarian Ideas of Freedom_ The Freedom to Compete and Freedom from Competition
• Resources and Premodern Nature
• Meritocratic Subject and Equality to Compete
• Conclusion
• 6. Conditions for Alienation: Technological Development and Capital Accumulation
• Introduction
• Alienation as an Experience
• Loss of Control and Freedom_ Marxist Alienation Theory
• Technology, Capital, and Alienation
• Conclusion
• 7. What Does Fossil Energy Tell Us about Technology?
• Introduction
• On the Zero Meridian
• Nafthism
• Hubris
• Fire and Plastics
• Technology and Sustainability
• Conclusion
• 8. Reversing the Industrial Revolution: Theorizing the Distributive Dimensions of Energy Transitions
• Introduction
• The Distributive Dimension of Energy Technologies
• Conclusion
• Part II Summary: Why Confront Technology?

Part III. Changing Technology

• 9. An Economy beyond Instrumental Rationality
• Introduction
• The Conventional Economy
• A Proposed New Economy
• Conclusion
• 10. Small, Local, and Low-Tech Firms as Agents of Sustainable Change
• Introduction
• Towards Sustainable Change
• Agency: A Critical Realist Perspective
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• 11. Creative Reconstruction of the Technological Society: A Path to Sustainability
• Introduction
• Technology as a Root Cause
• The Nature of Modern Technology
• On Technological Determinism
• Creative Reconstruction
• Objections
• Towards a Better Future
• Part III Summary: How to Change Technology?
• 12. Technology and Sustainability: A Conclusion

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