Outlines of a Critique of Technology

152 Pages·1980·3.265 MB·152\152

by  Phil Slater (ed.)

Outlines of a Critique of Technology
Outlines of a Critique of Technology
1. Science—Social aspects
2. Technology—Social aspects
3. Communication and Science
4. Communism and technology
I. Slater, Phil.
301.24,3 Q175.5
ISBN 0-9060-133-31-9.
ISBN 0-391-01889-2.
INK LINKS, LONDON
HUMANITIES PRESS,
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Outlines of a Critique of Technology
edited by Phil Slater
This anthology first published in 1980 by Ink Links Ltd. 271,
Kentish Town Road London NW5 2JS
and in the USA by Humanities Press Inc. 171, First Ave. Atlantic
Highlands
N.J.07716
English language rights for essays by Panzieri, Kapferer and
Bahr, and world rights outside the USA for introduction by
Monika Reinfelder and the prefaces and edited anthology by Phil
Slater
© Ink Links Ltd. 1980
R.Panzieri’s article first published as "Sull'uso capitalistico delle
macchine nel neocapitalismo” in Quaderni Rossi and reprinted in La
ripresa del marxismo-leninismo in Italia, Milan
© Sapere Edizioni, Milan 1972
N.Kapferer’s article first published as "Sohn-Rethels Weg von der
Wissenschaftskritik zur Affirmation” in H.D.Dombrowski,
U.Krause, P.Roos (eds) Symposium Warenform-Denkform: Zur
Erkenntstheorie Sohn-Rethels by Campus Verlag 1978, Frankfurt
and New York
© Campus Verlag 1978
H-D.Bahr’s article first published as "Die Klassenstruktur der
Maschinerie: Ammerkungen zur Wertform” in R.Vahrenkampf (ed)
Technologie und Kapital Suhrkampf Verlag, Frankfurt, e.s. 598,
1973
© Suhrkampf Verlag 1973
No part of this book may be reproduced except for brief excerpts
for criticism.
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Humanities Press ISBN 0 391 01889 2
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Contents
Page
Preface 7
Introduction: Breaking the Spell of Technicism 9
Monika Reinfelder
Introduction to Panzieri 39
The Capitalist Use of Machinery: Marx Versus the
'Objectivists* 44
Raniero Panzieri
Introduction to Kapferer 69
Commodity, Science and Technology: a Critique of
Sohn-Rethel 74
Norbert Kapferer
Introduction to Bahr 97
The Class Structure of Machinery: Notes on the
ValueForm 101
Hans-Dieter Bahr
Index 143
For:
Peter Zemitz
Gisela Bezzel-Dischner
Wilfred van der Will