The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical CultureIn 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. |
Contents
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Arendt the Household and Convenience | 15 |
Marxist Perspectives on Consumption | 43 |
Settling American Space | 65 |
Setting Bodies in Motion | 91 |
Weber Protestantism and Consumption | 113 |
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Aglietta agricultural ambivalence American space ancient ancient Greece Arendt ascetic attitude Augustine automobile Bartlett become body calling Calvin canals capitalist chapter Christianity Church civil claim claim clubs commodities concern consumer Dasein death demands Dick dimension discussion doctrine of predestination domination Dunbar earthly economic emphasizes Ernest Mandel Eros and Civilization essay Fordism Franklin Genealogy Greek Heidegger Herbert Marcuse Hobbes Hobbes's Homestead Homestead Act human Ibid idea important individuals labor land policy late capitalism limits Locke Luther Mandel Marcuse Marx Marx's Marxist ment modern asceticism modern consumption modern household mortal nature necessity needs Nietzsche Nietzsche's nineteenth century Ohio River one's perspective political predestination Preteceille and Terrail production process Protestantism punishment Puritans railroad realm relations of production Robbins role sacraments Sakolski salvation Scheler sense settlers social society squatters surplus-value thought threat tion trans transportation value of convenience Volume Weber Weber's argument worldly asceticism York