ABSTRACT

Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.

part |24 pages

Introduction

part |16 pages

Science, Language and Experience

part |20 pages

Technology, Meaning and Time

part |72 pages

On the Use and Abuse of Repetition for Critique