On the first day of school, I recited – many times – subjects that interest me as possible research topics. They include hypertext, social media, online communities, rhet. comp., writing instruction, and rhetoric of blogging.
While reading chapters one and three of Mary Sue MacNealy’s book Strategies for Empirical Research in …

“…the necessity for technology derives man’s organ deficiencies.”
In the beginning of Arnold Gehlen’s article, Gehlen expresses the notion that to live, man needs to build an environment that is suitable for his survival. Because of this, technology becomes not only the tools used to build said environment, but also the …

Anything thing, action, process, method, and system can be slapped with the word “technology.” The term is even used symbolically for working procedures, and according to Stephen J. Kline, this kind of defining not only brings chaos to technology, but it also keeps us from three important views: 1) how …

Through reading Jonas, there is no doubt that technology’s purpose has shifted from its earlier formation in which it was a possession and a state to its modern take as one of enterprise and process.
Everything about modern technology seems to be about more, now, progress. There is no “end.” According …

First paragraph of Shrader-Frechete’s work harkens back to Ellul’s thoughts of how “the men of classical antiquity could not have found a solution to our present determinisms, and it is useless to look into the works of Plato or Aristotle for an answer…” Because of technology, according to Shrader-Frechete, new …

In reading Ellul’s preface in the French edition of his book (1954) and the foreword in the revised American edition (1964), I can’t help but wonder what transpired in the decade because Ellul’s tone seems so fervent, so now in the ’64 foreword.  From the preface, to the note to …

Because “technology is… a major organ of contemporary culture,” Bunge asserts that technology needs its own philosophy that is connected to, yet separate from the philosophy of science. In discussing the tasks of philosophy and technology, which includes exploring similarities and differences between technological knowledge and scientific knowledge; the influence …