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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 | |