Mgr. Jeffrey Alan Norquist, B.A., M.A., MS

Doctoral thesis

Do That Machine Got a Song to Sing? The Meaning of Technology Resistance in U.S. American Culture

Do That Machine Got a Song to Sing? The Meaning of Technology Resistance in U.S. American Culture
Abstract:
Moje disertační práce zkoumá strukturu americko-amerického diskurzu proti technologiím a odhaluje aspekty individuální a komunitní zkušenosti viděné v ohrožení kvůli technovědním znalostem a vývoji. Ukazuji, jak antitechnologický diskurz napříč historií Spojených států rozšiřuje témata romantismu a realismu, dvou prominentních reakcí na racionalizaci, kterou rozpoutalo osvícenství. Antitechnologický …more
Abstract:
My dissertation investigates the structure of U.S. American anti-technology discourse, revealing the aspects of individual and community experience seen under threat due to technoscientific knowledge and development. I show how anti-technology discourse across the history of the United States extends the themes of Romanticism and Realism, two prominent responses to the rationalization unleashed by …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 3. 2023

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 22. 6. 2023
  • Supervisor: doc. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.
  • Reader: PhD Richard Randell, MS, Dr. Carroll Pursell

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Social Studies

Doctoral programme / field:
Sociology / Sociology

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