Paradoxes of The Technogenic Society. On Nikolai Tverdynin’s Book Technics In the Literature of Different Countries and Periods: an Essay Monograph by V. S. Glagolev

“…Two major beliefs are as follows: technophobic and technocratic. Dr. Tverdynin provides an unbiased description of their application to practice, as it becomes clear that technological threat awareness is a key feature of both attitudes. …”
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The Challenge of Technology to Moral Theology by Paul Scherz

“…In Laudato si’, Pope Francis developed a sophisticated critique of the reductive, manipulative attitudes underlying the contemporary technocratic paradigm. Many new technologies intensify the colonization of our lived experience by such worldviews. …”
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Anatomia e anomalia di un governo tecnico by Tommaso Edoardo Frosini

“…𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙, 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑦, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠.…”
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Power, rights, freedom, technocracy and postcolonialism in sub-Saharan Africa by Monika dos Santos

“…As rights have been propagated as the codified consequence of social struggles in sub-Saharan countries, so too have bio-political and technocratic regulations intensified, resulting in brutal exploitation through unregulated markets particularly in the so-called developing world, resembling indentured labour and voluntary servitude. …”
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Moving towards a circular economy model through I4.0 to accomplish the SDGs by Raji Ajwani-Ramchandani, Sonali Bhattacharya

“…This inclusive approach will require integrated efforts from Corporates, citizens, Government, NGOs, technocrats, academicians and the waste pickers. The benefits of the model can also be shared by all the stakeholders.The study is based on the insights received from exploring the experiences of some of the exemplar large residential housing communities located in the metropolitan cities in India who have undertaken voluntary efforts in segregating, recycling and reusing various types of wastes generated at the household level and converting them into resources. …”
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Revitalizing Human Values in an Age of Technology by Sreetama Misra

“…My prime effort here is to understand authenticity from a value-based paradigm and as a therapy from the consumerist-driven materialistic life but not segregated from the prospects of a technocratic world.…”
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A human approach to restructuring the education system: why schools in England need social pedagogy by Nicola Stobbs, Carla Solvason, Stuart Gallagher, Sue Baylis

“…In this article, we contend that the current schools’ system in England needs to be carefully reconsidered if we are to offer opportunities for success (in its broadest sense) to those whom our current, technocratic education system excludes. With a focus on social pedagogy and human-centred learning systems, we argue that continued modifications to the existing education system are no longer sufficient and that an ideology overhaul is needed before any significant positive progress can be made. …”
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Constructing a technical hegemony : the use and development of reinforced concrete in colonial Singapore from 1914-1956 by Chia, Valerie Yue Min

“…This paper argues that concrete had already existed since colonial times and was a substance of colonial culture by functioning as a key material in the building of a technocratic "scaffold of empire." My paper will cover three very different representations of concrete in architecture in the building of the Federated Malay States Railways terminus at Tanjong Pagar, the Cathay Building at Dhoby Ghaut and the Merdeka Bridge over the Kallang Basin from 1914-1956. …”
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Residential retrofit in the climate emergency: The role of metrics by Fawcett, T, Topouzi, M

“…However, choice of metrics is not simply a technocratic issue, because their design is not value free. …”

Standards as a social contract in curriculum-based qualifications: stakeholder views in Scotland by Baird, J-A, Godfrey-Faussett, T, Allan, S, Macintosh, E, Hutchinson, C, Wiseman-Orr, L

“…Based upon this Scottish case, the authors argue that social settlements regarding qualification standards are a social contract, and a solely technocratic view of standards is conceptually inadequate.…”

Between waste and profit: environmental values on the Central African Copperbelt by Peša, I

“…By focusing on topics such as air, water, health, cleanliness, and pollution, the tensions between the profit-oriented motives of mining companies, the technocratic solutions proposed by engineers, and popular concerns over human and environmental wellbeing are revealed. …”

Universal Health Coverage for Non-communicable Diseases and Health Equity: Reflections on the Role of Ideas and Democratic Decision-Making; Comment on “Universal Health Coverage fo... by Lauren Paremoer

“…These strategies are important for ensuring that the political, power-laden nature of concepts such as “universality”, “health” and “care” are explicitly acknowledged and publicly debated – rather than continuing the current trend of allowing technocrats to reduce UHC to a matter of efficiently and expeditiously financing curative healthcare services.…”
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Multiple futures for society, research, and innovation in the European Union: jumping to 2038 by Stephanie Daimer, Attila Havas, Kerstin Cuhls, Merve Yorulmaz, Petar Vrgovic

“…In the Kingdom of RRI citizens participate directly in decision-making processes; Fortress Europe depicts a libertarian system; Failed Democracy is a populist regime; while Benevolent Green Eurocrats describes a technocratically coordinated strong state. The scenarios offer novel insights into the nature and repercussions of possible policy problems, that is, efficacy; efficiency; legitimacy of R&I activities; societal involvement; equity; and freedom of research. …”
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Reconstituting the Code of Capital: could a progressive European code of private law help us reduce inequality and regain democratic control? by Martijn W. Hesselink

“…It would be European (not national), be mandatory (not optional), have ‘constitutional’ ie primary EU law status (not merely secondary), consist of fundamental principles (not detailed rules), prioritise justice (not economic growth), and be radically democratic (not technocratic).…”
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Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way forward by Basseches, Joshua A., Bromley-Trujillo, Rebecca, Boykoff, Maxwell T., Culhane, Trevor, Hall, Galen, Healy, Noel, Hess, David J., Hsu, David, Krause, Rachel M., Prechel, Harland, Roberts, J. T., Stephens, Jennie C.

“…We review the political structures and interest groups that slow action, and we examine emerging tensions between climate justice and the technocratic and/or market-oriented approaches traditionally taken by many mainstream environmental groups. …”
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Malaysian Muslim youth perception towards management of spirituality program in Malaysia by Elias, Nor Hanim, Maamor, Selamah, Aziz, Ahmad Bashir

“…The development of this group is crucial since they will be future leaders, professionals, technocrats, skilled and productive workforce necessary to attain developed nation status. …”
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The Threat of Longtermism: Is Ecological Catastrophe an Existential Risk? Disillusioned Ideals for a Bold, New Future by Sarah Frances Hicks, Dominika Janus

“…While we recognize the merits of long-term thinking, we argue longtermists’ prioritization consolidates power among few technocrats. This prioritization exacerbates existing inequalities instead of redistributing economic and political power to communities most affected by climate change. …”
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Re-Engaging Social Relationships and Collective Dimensions of Organizing to Revive Democratic Practice by Paul W. Speer, Hahrie Han

“…This paper examines community organizing (in the US) as an instrument for equitable and just social change, and argues that three interrelated trends are subtly undermining a core practice of organizing: developing social relationships. An expanding technocratic influence on politics, an inflated focus on individual-level metrics for evaluating organizing, and a growing belief that digital technologies and big data leverage greater power, combine to engender an atomized view of people, who are increasingly treated as consumers rather than producers of social change. …”
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Becoming Solar: Towards More-Than-Human Understandings of Solar Energy by Angela Mackey, Monserrat Vallejo de la Guarda, Oscar Tomico, Ron Wakkary, Troy Nachtigall, Martijn de Waal

“…Motivated by calls to approach solar design in novel, less technocratic ways, we reflect on their one-year journey to gain a new relationship with solar energy as an explicitly more-than-human design (MTHD) approach. …”
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Existential insecurity and deference to authority: the pandemic as a natural experiment by Roberto Stefan Foa, Christian Welzel

“…Multilevel models were used to explore the drivers of change, and the results indicated that reported emotions of fear and stress were positively associated with institutional approval during periods of greater pathogen risk.ResultsOur findings revealed that support for political and technocratic authority, as well as satisfaction with political institutions, rose significantly above long-term historical baselines during the pandemic.DiscussionThe results support the hypothesis that exposure to existential risk results in greater support for authority and that individual feelings of insecurity may be linked to less critical citizen orientations.…”
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