Technology and the lifeworld: from garden to earth

TLDR

The background discusses lifeworld concepts from Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau‑Ponty, and Galileo, focusing on praxis, perception, time, space, artifacts, and technofacts. The purpose is to present recommendations for stewardship of the inherited Earth, aiming to demythologize and demasculinize technological science. The mechanism comprises three programs—a phenomenology of technics, cultural hermeneutics of technology transfer, and lifeworld shaping of pluriculturality—each exploring embodied relations, neocolonialism, and materializing conceptual oscillations. The findings highlight the need for conservation of Earth and propose a postscript on technological science.

Abstract

Preface Introduction: Entry Level 1. From Garden to Earth 2. Technology and the Lifeworld 3. Lifeworld: Praxis and Perception HeideggerOs Hammer HusserlOs Galileo Merleau-PontyOs Father 4. Adam and Galileo Lifeworld Technics: Time Perception Lifeworld Technics: Space Perception Artifacts and Technofacts 5. Program One: A Phenomenology of Technics Technics Embodied Hermeneutic Technics Alterity Relations Background Relations Horizontal Phenomena Eve and the Spaceship Dreams of Totalization 6. Program Two: Cultural Hermeneutics Technology Transfer: Technologies as Cultural Instruments Neocolonialism as the Failure of Tranfer OControllingO Technology Techology-Culture Embeddedness as Multistable The Varieties of Technological Experience Adam and EveOs Culinary Revolution 7. Program Three: Lifeworld Shapes Pluriculturality Decisional Burden Materializing the Conceptual Oscillatory Phenomena 8. Epilogue: The Earth Inherited Stwardship Recommendations for the Inherited Earth To Conserve the Earth Demythologizing (and Demasculinizing) Technological Science Galileo in the Kitchen Concluding Postscript on Technological Science Index