TECHNOCRITICISM

TECHNOCRITICISM
- is a branch of critical
theory devoted to the
study of technological
change.

TECHNOCRITICISM
studies these personal
and social practices in
their changing practical
and cultural significance.

2 TYPES OF
TECHNOCRITICISM

Descriptive form

Prescriptive form

DESCRIPTIVE FORMS
can be discerned in elements of
scholarship described instead as
the history of technology science
and
technology
studies,
or
especially technocultural theory.

Descriptive forms of technocriticism

include some scholarship in the
history of technology, science and
technology studies, cyberculture
studies and philosophy of
technology.

PRESCRIPTIVE FORMS
found in various branches of
technoethical discourse.

EXAMPLES OF
TECHNOETHICAL
DISCOURSE
I N F O E T H I C S
B I O E T H I C S
MEDIA CRITICISM

Figures engaged in
technocritical
scholarship and
theory

DONNA HARAWAY & BRUNO LATOUR

N. KATHERINE HAYLES
PHIL AGREE & MARK POSTER
MARSHALL MCLUHAN & FRIEDRICH KITTLER
SUSAN SQUIER & RICHARD DOYLE
HANNAH ARENDT, WALTER BENJAMIN,
MARTIN HEIDEGGER & MICHEL FOUCAULT

REFERENCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Technocriticism
http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2
005/04/what-is-technocriticism.
html