Top Technology Critics

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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,959 ratings
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Technological Slavery
Technological Slavery 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Art as Far as the Eye Can See
Art as Far as the Eye Can See 3.18 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Technological Society
The Technological Society 4.31 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15,971 ratings
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Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio
by: Ian James
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Technology and the Canadian mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant
Technology and the Canadian mind: Innis, McLuhan, Grant 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes 4.27 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle 3.95 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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Society of the Spectacle
Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,635 ratings
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The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays 4.15 avg rating — 2,173 ratings
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety 4.27 avg rating — 14,178 ratings
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Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity
Digital Madness: How Social Media Is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis--and How to Restore Our Sanity 3.56 avg rating — 400 ratings
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The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle
The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Secret fallout: Low-level radiation from Hiroshima to Three Mile Island
Secret fallout: Low-level radiation from Hiroshima to Three Mile Island 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Killing our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation
Killing our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Message Is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital
The Message Is Murder: Substrates of Computational Capital 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West
Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West 4.26 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity
Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity 4.33 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,288 ratings
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life 4.03 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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We Almost Lost Detroit
We Almost Lost Detroit 3.69 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It 3.81 avg rating — 612 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 4.16 avg rating — 36,102 ratings
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The Decline of Nature: Environmental History and the Western Worldview
The Decline of Nature: Environmental History and the Western Worldview really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 3.89 avg rating — 32,236 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,659 ratings
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The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Technological System
Technological System 4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Radiation and Human Health
Radiation and Human Health 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Information Bomb
The Information Bomb 3.71 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 4.06 avg rating — 12,765 ratings
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The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche: Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche: Heidegger, Marx, and Nietzsche 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Re-Engineering Humanity
Re-Engineering Humanity 3.75 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator 3.28 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 4.21 avg rating — 6,470 ratings
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Mcluhan or Modernism in Reverse
Mcluhan or Modernism in Reverse 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Rise of the Network Society
The Rise of the Network Society 3.97 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century 4.09 avg rating — 516 ratings
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Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity 3.67 avg rating — 2,711 ratings
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other 3.62 avg rating — 6,380 ratings
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The Real World of Technology
The Real World of Technology 4.16 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man 4.10 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
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Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan
Forward Through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan 3.98 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Mirror of Production
The Mirror of Production 3.85 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Technology as Magic
Technology as Magic 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Deschooling Society
Deschooling Society 3.99 avg rating — 3,414 ratings
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The Paul Virilio Reader (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
The Paul Virilio Reader (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation 3.74 avg rating — 397 ratings
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code 4.26 avg rating — 2,346 ratings
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War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception
War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception 3.88 avg rating — 382 ratings
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24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep 3.72 avg rating — 2,958 ratings
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Revolution of Necessity: Language, Technique, and Freedom in the Writings of Jacques Ellul and Slavoj Zizek
Revolution of Necessity: Language, Technique, and Freedom in the Writings of Jacques Ellul and Slavoj Zizek really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (Continuum Impacts, 60)
Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (Continuum Impacts, 60) 3.85 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, Critical, and Postmodern Perspectives
Transforming McLuhan: Cultural, Critical, and Postmodern Perspectives 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond
Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology 3.95 avg rating — 5,008 ratings
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Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture
Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Speed and Politics
Speed and Politics 3.82 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Neurocapitalism: Technological Mediation and Vanishing Lines
Neurocapitalism: Technological Mediation and Vanishing Lines 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture , Volume III
End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture , Volume III 4.04 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II
The Power of Identity: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Volume II 4.09 avg rating — 428 ratings
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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future 4.04 avg rating — 2,679 ratings
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The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Power Failure
Power Failure 3.74 avg rating — 85 ratings
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The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures 4.12 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age 3.81 avg rating — 5,083 ratings
72.
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place 3.62 avg rating — 943 ratings
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McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion
McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion 3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books)
Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture (October Books) 3.99 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries
Humans, Animals, Machines: Blurring Boundaries liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle 4.09 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man 4.13 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media (The Radical Imagination) (Radical Imagination Series)
Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media (The Radical Imagination) (Radical Imagination Series) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Displaying Women
Displaying Women 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
80.
Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture
Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
81.
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy
by: B.W. Powe
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
82.
McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight
McLuhan Misunderstood: Setting the Record Straight 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us 3.75 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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Laws of Media: The New Science
Laws of Media: The New Science 4.07 avg rating — 123 ratings
85.
McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography
McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality
Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality 3.46 avg rating — 37 ratings
87.
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! 3.91 avg rating — 800 ratings
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Marshall McLuhan (Core Cultural Theorists series)
Marshall McLuhan (Core Cultural Theorists series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century
The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century 4.09 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry 4.21 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Living in the Labyrinth of Technology
Living in the Labyrinth of Technology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention 3.69 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition
Illusions of Freedom: Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul on Technology and the Human Condition 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Body invaders: Panic sex in America
Body invaders: Panic sex in America 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Possessed Individual: Technology and Postmodernity
The Possessed Individual: Technology and Postmodernity 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google 3.84 avg rating — 2,628 ratings
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The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization 4.40 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Illusion of Freedom and Equality
The Illusion of Freedom and Equality 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society
Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation
Presence in the Modern World: A New Translation 4.29 avg rating — 438 ratings
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