Critique of technology is a theory which analyzes the negative impacts of technologies. Proponents of these theory argue that, in all advanced industrial societies (whether capitalist or not), technology becomes a means of domination, control and exploitation, or more generally something which threatens the survival of humanity. Prominent authors elaborating a critique of technology are, e.g.. Jacques Ellul, Langdon Winner, Joseph Weizenbaum, Theodore Roszak, and Lewis Mumford.

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  • Critique of technology is a theory which analyzes the negative impacts of technologies. Proponents of these theory argue that, in all advanced industrial societies (whether capitalist or not), technology becomes a means of domination, control and exploitation, or more generally something which threatens the survival of humanity. Prominent authors elaborating a critique of technology are, e.g.. Jacques Ellul, Langdon Winner, Joseph Weizenbaum, Theodore Roszak, and Lewis Mumford. In the 1970s in the US, the critique of technology became the basis of a new political perspective called anarcho-primitivism, which was forwarded by thinkers such as Fredy Perlman, John Zerzan, and David Watson. All former marxists, they proposed differing theories about how it was industrial society, and not capitalism as such, that was at the root of contemporary social problems. This theory was developed in the journal Fifth Estate in the 1970s and 1980s, and was influenced by the Frankfurt School, Jacques Ellul and others. The critique of technology overlaps with the philosophy of technology but whereas the latter tries to establish itself as an academic discipline the critique of technology is basically a political project, not limited to academia. It features prominently in neomarxism, ecofeminism and in postdevelopment
  • Als Technikskepsis (bzw. Technikfeindlichkeit oder Technikkritik) bezeichnet man eine Sichtweise, welche den gegenwärtigen Zustand oder die Zukunft der Menschheit durch Fortschritte in Wissenschaft, Technik und Forschung gefährdet oder bedroht sieht.
  • Les courants anti-industriels sont des courants politiques qui se distinguent par une critique radicale de toutes les technologies issues des révolutions industrielles des XIX et XX siècles. Ces courants dépassent le traditionnel clivage gauche-droite : il existe aussi bien des courants d'extrême gauche que d'extrême-droite.
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  • Critique of technology is a theory which analyzes the negative impacts of technologies. Proponents of these theory argue that, in all advanced industrial societies (whether capitalist or not), technology becomes a means of domination, control and exploitation, or more generally something which threatens the survival of humanity. Prominent authors elaborating a critique of technology are, e.g.. Jacques Ellul, Langdon Winner, Joseph Weizenbaum, Theodore Roszak, and Lewis Mumford.
  • Als Technikskepsis (bzw. Technikfeindlichkeit oder Technikkritik) bezeichnet man eine Sichtweise, welche den gegenwärtigen Zustand oder die Zukunft der Menschheit durch Fortschritte in Wissenschaft, Technik und Forschung gefährdet oder bedroht sieht.
  • Les courants anti-industriels sont des courants politiques qui se distinguent par une critique radicale de toutes les technologies issues des révolutions industrielles des XIX et XX siècles. Ces courants dépassent le traditionnel clivage gauche-droite : il existe aussi bien des courants d'extrême gauche que d'extrême-droite.
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  • Critique of technology
  • Technikskepsis
  • Courants anti-industriels
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