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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Computers and Praxis | |
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How the Theoretical Is Giving Way to the Pragmatic in Computer Systems Design | |
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The Theoretical Orientation to Computer Systems Design | |
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Critics and Defenders of the Theoretical Orientation | |
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The Pragmatic Orientation to Computer Systems Design | |
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The Influence of Dewey and McLuhan | |
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The Pragmatic Turn in Design Research | |
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Who Is in Control? | |
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Critical Theory and Information Technology Design | |
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Two Understandings of Reason | |
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Oppositional Thought | |
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Hegel's Dialectical Principle | |
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Heidegger's "Thought" | |
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Heidegger's Technology | |
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Dialectic and Critical Theory | |
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Marcuse's Technological Thinking | |
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Critical Theory and Information Technology | |
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The Limits to a Critical Theory of Information Technology | |
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The Limits of Dialectical Thinking | |
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Alternatives to a Critical Theory of Information Technology | |
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From Domination to Power | |
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From Dialectic to Distanciation | |
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From Causality to Community | |
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Deconstruction and Information Technology | |
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The Implications of Derrida's Project against Metaphysics | |
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Modern Responses to IT | |
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Derrida and the Dismantling of the Modern Critique | |
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Deconstructive Critique of Technological Determinism | |
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Metaphysics and Presence | |
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Derrida's Critique of Heidegger on Technology | |
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Derrida and Radical Hermeneutics | |
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IT Praxis | |
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Summary | |
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Where in the World Is Cyberspace? | |
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The Phenomenology of Computer-Mediated Communications | |
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Presuppositions of Cyberspace | |
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Phenomenology of World, Space, and Place | |
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Representation and Reality | |
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The Phenomenology of Virtual Reality | |
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Data-Oriented and Constructivist Views of Perception | |
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The Correspondence and Constructivist Views of Representation | |
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Heidegger and Things | |
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Truth and Representation | |
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Technology Opens up a World Through Difference | |
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Recovering Virtual Reality | |
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Systematic Design | |
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Methods, Theories, and Models in Design | |
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Methods, Theories, and Models in Science | |
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Methods, Theories, and Models of Design | |
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Disanalogies of Design | |
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Cognitive Models | |
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Design Models and Information Technology | |
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The Antisystematic Tradition in Design | |
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Metaphors and Machines | |
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Metaphor, Being, and Computer Systems Design | |
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Theories of Metaphor | |
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The Literal and the Metaphorical | |
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Metaphor and the Body | |
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Metaphor and Metaphysics | |
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Metaphor and Science | |
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Metaphor and Technology | |
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Metaphor and Being | |
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Metaphor and Design | |
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Conclusion | |
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Changing Metaphors of Computer Systems | |
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Being and Resistance | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |