- Hardcover: 414 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press (3 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262032287
- ISBN-13: 978-0262032285
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,442,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age" provides theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development and application of computer systems is challenged and enchanced by postmodern philosophical thought. He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science. Coyne examines the entire range of comtemporary philosophical thinking - including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction - comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia. He also probes the claims made of information technology, including its resumptions of control, its so-called radicality, even its ability to make virtual worlds, and shows that many of these claims are poorly founded. Among the writings Coyne visits are works by Hiedegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Gadamer, Derrida, Habermas, Rorty and Foucault. He relates their views to information technology designers and critics such as Hebert Simon, Alan Kay, Terry Winograd, Hubert Drefus, and Joseph Weizenbaum. In particular, Coyne draws extensively from the writing of Martin Heidegger, who has presented one of the most radical critiques of technology to date.
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