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We keep talking about the increasing presence of technology in human life, but this discourse is always reduced to the description of a fact that is there, but may not be there, or may not have been there at all. Going beyond the ways in which philosophies of history (for instance, the Hegelian one or the Marxist one) have articulated a “necessary” development within history, this article foregrounds the inconsistency of this kind of “necessity”, but, at the same time, shows how the reflection on dominating technology cannot be limited to a simple description of this phenomenon.
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Severino, E. (2021). On the Meaning of Technology’s Domination. In: Chiodo, S., Schiaffonati, V. (eds) Italian Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54522-2_5
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