Social Aspects

Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A. Stahl, is an unacknowledged mysticism, an implicit religion. By not a …

Le nouveau roman de l'énergie nationale est une étude des moyens discursifs mis en place par la Société d'État Hydro-Québec pour lier sa représentation à celle de l'identité nationale des Québécois depuis la Révolution tranquille. On y examine également comment les publicités télévisées, des slogans particuliers, les discours d'ina …

Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories.Jacques Ellul, historian, …

New technologies and the science that created them have transformed our lives, posing challenges as to how technological change can be better integrated in society. Recognition of these issues has led to different ways of engaging the public in the assessment and regulation of emerging technologies. This book puts the subject of publics and their e …

For decades, government, industry, and the mainstream media haveextolled the virtues of biotechnology while downplaying its negativeside effects. Focusing on agriculture, Resistance Is Fertilechallenges this dominant rhetoric by analyzing the major issues aroundwhich opponents of biotechnology in Canada are mobilizingresistance – namely, the encl …