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Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity examines how technology embodies our struggle with human finitude and our desire to control time itself. Lorenzo Simpson presents a thought-provoking analysis of how technological advancement shapes our understanding of meaningful action and the significance we find in our daily lives. This scholarly work offers a tough-minded critique of the technological perspective and its cultural implications, combining rigorous philosophical inquiry with accessible prose. The book explores the tension between our drive to domesticate time through technology and the deeper questions about what constitutes a meaningful existence. Simpson's examination bridges contemporary technological discourse and post-modern thought, making it essential reading for those interested in the intersection of philosophy, technology studies, and cultural criticism.

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Lorenzo Simpson examines how technology reflects humanity's fundamental uneasiness with finitude and mortality.

The book analyses how our technological dominance over time fundamentally alters our perception of meaningful action.

Routledge publishes this work as a scholarly critique of technological perspectives and post-modernist responses.

Simpson combines philosophical rigour with accessible language to explore technology's role in contemporary life.

The text addresses how domesticating time through technology shapes the meaning we derive from our experiences.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
14 January 1995
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09 February 2007

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