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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture

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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture - Tierney, Thomas F
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In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.

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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture 1993, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

ISBN-13: 9780791412435

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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture 1992, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY

ISBN-13: 9780791412442

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