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Technology and the trajectory of myth / David Grant, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School and formerly visiting fellow, Faculty of law, UNSW Sydney, Australia; Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney, Australia.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English. Publication details: UK : Edward Elgar, 2017.Description: vii, 257pISBN:
  • 9781785369964 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.095 GRA-T
Summary: 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, David Grant and Lyria Bennett Moses 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.
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Includes bibliographical reference (pages 236-247) and index.

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, David Grant and Lyria Bennett Moses 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.

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