
Using Words and Things
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"Coeckelbergh's book is an important and welcome study, especially for the way it critiques the dismissal or neglect of language in contemporary philosophy of technology, counters this omission by integrating such philosophy with the postmodern investigations of language, and thus sketches new possibilities for conceptualizing technology." - Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsMore details
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Part I: Humans Speak (Subjects versus Objects)
Chapter 2: Speaking with and about Technology
Chapter 3: Giving Meaning to Technology: A Searlean Social Ontology of Technological Artefacts
Part II: Language Speaks (Subjects Change Objects)
Chapter 4: Language and the Social Construction of Artefacts
Chapter 5: All about Language: Postmodern Interpretations, or the Muting of Humans and Technology
Part III: Technology Speaks (Objects Change Subjects)
Chapter 6: What Technology Tells Us (To Do) (Part 1): Media, Artefacts, Networks
Chapter 7: What Technology Tells Us (To Do) (Part 2): Narrative Technologies, or Interpreting and Materializing Ricoeur
Part IV: Humans, Language, and Technology Speak (Subjects and Objects Entangled)
Chapter 8: Using and Performing with Words and Things
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