Categories, Institutions, Instruments: Technology as a Category?
This article explores the notion of ‘technology’ as a category of understanding. To understand ‘technology’ as a category implies that the socio-technical practices of using modern technical objects have generated this category of the human mind, i.e. as a specific mode of perceiving and constructin...
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Artefact
2025
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This article explores the notion of ‘technology’ as a category of understanding. To understand ‘technology’ as a category implies that the socio-technical practices of using modern technical objects have generated this category of the human mind, i.e. as a specific mode of perceiving and constructing a world. The genetic process of how ‘technology’ can become a category is studied against the backdrop of the “Category Project of the Durkheim School.” The underlying heuristic of the category project is that human intelligence and its categories originate in social practices. To conceive of ‘technology’ as a category therefore requires an attempt to understand how techniques firstly contribute to the genesis of a category and in what sense this category is the expression and crystallization of social things. |
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