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Morality and Technology

Latour, Bruno, Venn, Couze·2002·Theory, Culture & Society
DOI 10.1177/026327602761899246
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Technology is always limited to the realm of means, while morality is supposed to deal with ends. In this theoretical article about comparing those two regimes of enunciation, it is argued that technology is on the contrary characterized by the `ends of means' that is the impossibility of being limited to tools; technical artefacts are never tools if what is meant by this is a transmission of function in a mastered way. Once this modification of the meaning of technology is accepted, then it is possible to relate technology, in a totally different way, to morality which is not about values, but about the exploration of ends.

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Authors
Latour, B., & Venn, C.
Venue
Theory, Culture & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2002-12
Volume
19
Issue
5-6
Pages
247-260
ISSN
  • 0263-2764 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3616
DOI
10.1177/026327602761899246
OpenAlex
W2003695338
Cited by
543
References
9
FWCI
24.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
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