ABSTRACT
Even the quickest survey of the history of social and cultural attitudes towards technology and the constructions of it reveals a very deep and serious tension. Indeed, to a very considerable extent the tension can be understood easily and fairly as yet another dimension of the dialectic between reification and reflexivity. I have of course been pursuing the thought that the perception and the identification of this dialectic is one of the key myths of European modernity and, therefore, the basic terrain of the intimation of the post-modern condition.
