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(2018) French philosophy of technology, Dordrecht, Springer.
To fully accomplish the "thing turn" in the philosophy of technology this paper invites shifting the attention from humans towards the world. The concept of world here refers to the complex made of the Earth with all things and living beings, including humans; it ignores the great divide between nature and society or culture. In this worldly perspective, the thing turn means adopting the perspective of things and raising questions such as how artifacts come into being, how they intervene within the world, how they change it. Such issues are vital to prevent the alienation of technology both from nature and from human beings.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89518-5_17
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Bensaude-Vincent, B. (2018)., Of times and things: technology and durability, in S. Loeve, X. Guchet & B. Bensaude-Vincent (eds.), French philosophy of technology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 279-298.
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