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Ending technocracy with a neologism? Avivocracy as a conceptual tool.
- Source :
- Technology in Society; Nov2018, Vol. 55, p136-139, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Highlights • Technocracy is the label given to support for fully 'rationalised' governance; it is one of the defining features of Western modernism. • I outline the origins of the word technocracy and its relationship with epistemic injustice and 'practicality'. • I explore several possible candidates as antonyms, and their different inadequacies. • Finally, I propose a neologism - avivocracy -. It foregrounds irreducible uncertainty, ambiguity and uncontrollability in the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- NEW words
TECHNOCRACY
MODERNISM (Aesthetics)
EPISTEMICS
ANTONYMS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0160791X
- Volume :
- 55
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Technology in Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132870167
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2018.07.006