Keywords
technology
technological development
capitalism
polycrisis
industrial revolution
computational thinking
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Abstract
The article analyses the ideology of technology and its development as a constitutive ideological structure of contemporary capitalism and as an obstacle for developing sustainable, emancipatory, democratic solutions for the polycrisis that has began to radically destabilise the existing ecologically unsustainable system. By utilising a materialist neo-Luddite analytical framework it examines the central ideological notions through which technologies and their development were historically imagined. Additionally, it reflects on this ideological structure in connection to the wider justification and legitimisation of capitalism in its various historical iterations and points to the limiting nature of this structure that obstructs the articulation of alternative visions.
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