Technology as Magic

The Triumph of the Irrational

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Av Peter M.R. Stirk, Richard Stivers, Peter Stirk

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Stivers argues that our expectations of technology in society have led to the generation of a multitude of imitation technologies that function as magical practices once did. This is particularly true in the fields of psychology, management and the mass media, where their paramount purpose is human adjustment and control. Advertising and television, in particular, symbolically connect consumer goods and services to desired outcomes - the utopian goals of success, happiness and health.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-07-01
Mått160 x 231 x 19 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780826413673

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"Prepare to be rewarded. Stivers' erudition, astringency and finely modulated outrage at the vast apparatus of technological hoodwinkery now operative in various well-intentioned (and some venal) bureaucracies all serve to make the book engrossing and compelling. Technology as Magic is full of startling insights into the sometimes visible, more often mystical appurtenances of technology, in which our society has vested its faith, and to which much of humanity has deeded its soul....Technology as Magic includes some remarkable-and entertaining-capsule histories of advertising, applied psychology, statistics, law, bureaucracy, and the theory and practice of management, all of which, in Stivers' view, are 'imitation technologies.'...Technology as Magic is a careful and urgent moral tome. It works brilliantly to disclose the intellectually suffocating, morally numbing and spiritually degrading effects of the technological milieu and its concomitant instrumental world-view."-Resurgence