The Whale and the Reactor : A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology / Langdon Winner.

By:

Winner, Langdon [author.]

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2020Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 226 pages 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780226692548

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

601 WIN 23

LOC classification:

T14 .W54 2020

Contents:

A Philosophy of Technology; Technologies as Forms of Life; Do Artifacts Have Politics? Technē and Politeia; Technology: Reform and Revolution; Building the Better Mousetrap; Decentralization Clarified; Mythinformation; Excess and Limit; The State of Nature Revisited; Risk Assessment: A Hazardous Pursuit; Brandy, Cigars, and Human Values; The Whale and the Reactor; Beyond Techno-narcissism: Self and Other in the Digital Public Realm.

Summary: "Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He has a blog and tweets liberally. First published in 1986, The Whale and the Reactor has been assigned for years. This edition includes a passionately argued new chapter entitled Beyond Techno-narcissism as well as a new Preface and a postscript describing the now planned decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon reactor in California"-- Provided by publisher.

List(s) this item appears in: NAAC 2022-23

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	General Stacks	601 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		38931

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Philosophy of Technology;
Technologies as Forms of Life;
Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Technē and Politeia;
Technology: Reform and Revolution;
Building the Better Mousetrap;
Decentralization Clarified;
Mythinformation;
Excess and Limit;
The State of Nature Revisited;
Risk Assessment: A Hazardous Pursuit;
Brandy, Cigars, and Human Values;
The Whale and the Reactor;
Beyond Techno-narcissism: Self and Other in the Digital Public Realm.

"Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He has a blog and tweets liberally. First published in 1986, The Whale and the Reactor has been assigned for years. This edition includes a passionately argued new chapter entitled Beyond Techno-narcissism as well as a new Preface and a postscript describing the now planned decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon reactor in California"-- Provided by publisher.

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