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On the magic bullet

Johnson, Victoria and Simms, Andrew 2012. On the magic bullet. Tyszczuk, Renata, Smith, Joe, Clark, Nigel and Butcher, Melissa, eds. Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World, London: Blackdog Publishing, pp. 126-131.

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Abstract

From the advent of the simplest hand tool, to the evolution of agriculture and advance systems of transport and communication, technology has patterned human interdependence, and the interactions between society and the biosphere. Culture on the other hand, seeks to understand, problematise and explain those complex relationships. Where technology evolves to answer a particular question, culture invariably turns around to ask for several more different answers. Out of successful problems solving, unintended consequences usual emerge. For this reason, cultural representations of technology in Western civilisation, and the dualistic, mechanistic and reductive philosophies from which it stems, drips with ambivalence. The highest ambitions of science in the service of technology can give rise to the deepest doubts.

Item Type: Book Section
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Architecture
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Publisher: Blackdog Publishing
ISBN: 9781907317392
Funders: Frederick Soddy Trust, Open Space Research Centre
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2016 23:15
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/44873

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