Daniël Zevenhuizen’s Reviews > The Technical Condition: The Entanglement of Technology, Culture, and Society > Status Update

In his chapter on the history of thinking about technology in society, Darryl Cressman rightly takes Karl Marx as a starting point. He was one of the first to overcome the philosophical blindness to technology (implicit in Aristotle's distinction between episteme [science] and techne [practical skill]) in a systematic way. As capital, industrial machines optimize worker exploitation, rendering him a mere appendage.