The Prometheus complex, man's obsession with superior technology
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The advance of technology is no so conscious and rational as we are made to believe. man is obsessed with superior technology, he is driven by feelings of rivalry, fear and aggression. That is why Prometheus acts as a model in this study. The Prometheus Complex provides a penetrating analysis of how ancient and modern man faces technical change. It explores the unconscious roots and repercussions of technological progress, and demonstrates that technology throughout history always had to overcome taboos. man had to suppress feelings of awe and fear toward the overwhelming powers of the their gods and nature itself. This revealing study examines technological breakthroughs such as fire making, mining, anatomy and genetic engineering. Using insights from sociology, engineering science and anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, paleontology, and history, it puts the making an using of material artifacts in a different light. Unless we understand the nature of man's obsession we will not be able to solve the immense problems surrounding technology. The Prometheus Complex is a key text for students and scholars of sociology, engineering, psychology, history and economics. In exploring the unconscious it avoids the rational bias of prevailing technology studies. It concludes with a general model that tempts the reader to further model building. Hardcover, Label: Enzo Press, Enzo Press, Productgroep: Book, Gepubliceerd: 1995-01-01, Studio: Enzo Press, Verkoop rang: 7487747.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, killarneybooks.
Enzo Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, [10] + 209 pages, bibliography (pp 183-198), index, NOT ex-library. A small nick to upper edge of two leaves (pp 199-202) caused but an untrimmed bit of excess paper, a gentle mark inside front board that appears to be a manufacturing imperfection, a couple of tiny brown dots on rear endpaper/pastedown. Otherwise interior in very good condition, clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text and firm binding. Boards show short creases to upper outer corners, tiny wrinkles to spine ends, shelfworn scratches and faint marks. Published without a dust jacket. --- The advance of technology is no so conscious and rational as we are made to believe. Man is obsessed with superior technology, he is driven by feelings of rivalry, fear and aggression. That is why Prometheus acts as a model in this study. The Prometheus Complex provides a penetrating analysis of how ancient and modern man faces technical change. It explores the unconscious roots and repercussions of technological progress, and demonstrates that technology throughout history always had to overcome taboos. man had to suppress feelings of awe and fear toward the overwhelming powers of the their gods and nature itself. This revealing study examines technological breakthroughs such as fire making, mining, anatomy and genetic engineering. Using insights from sociology, engineering science and anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, paleontology, and history, it puts the making an using of material artifacts in a different light. Unless we understand the nature of man's obsession we will not be able to solve the immense problems surrounding technology. The Prometheus Complex is a key text for students and scholars of sociology, engineering, psychology, history and economics. In exploring the unconscious it avoids the rational bias of prevailing technology studies. It concludes with a general model that tempts the reader to further model building. --- Contents: 1 Prometheus: Myth and Complex (Living Like Gods; Sexual Crimes in Myth; Prometheus Complex; Technological Breakthroughs; Sacred and Accursed; Taboo in Maori Society; Notes) - 2 The Technology of Intrusion (Ancient Cultures; Vivisection on Prisoners; Sexualization of the Ancient World; Mining and Metallurgical Taboos; Openness and Secrecy; Desecration of Nature; Nature Under Torture; Notes) - 3 The Engineering of Life (Eugenics; Career of Biotechnology; Transfusion, Transplantation, and Transgenesis; Downloading Your Consciousness; Animism; Notes) - 4 Odysseus and Telegonos (Military-Industrial Complex; Myth as a Model; Ritualized Aggression; Greek Myth and Sacrificial Ritual; Hunt-Sacrifice-War Complex; Notes) - 5 The Unconscious Dimension (Technology Produces Unconsciousness; The Concept of Defense; Professional Defenses; Censorship on Feelings; Cognitive and the Affective Unconscious; Towards a Sociology of the (Un-)conscious; Notes) - 6 How the Obsession Goes on (Dual-Change Model of Technology; Orthogenetic Principle; Technical Institutionalization and Socialization; A Blind Spot; Artefacts as Acts; Prolongation of Childhood; Notes).

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