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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture
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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture

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In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Country
United States
Date
14 January 1993
Pages
281
ISBN
9780791412435

In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Country
United States
Date
14 January 1993
Pages
281
ISBN
9780791412435