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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano

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Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano

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This article examines the state of extreme mechanization in modern industrial societies, which leads to a strict separation of the various spheres of life and ultimately to the exclusion of the human element. The philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas in particular, have rigorously analyzed the inherently ideological function of technology in late capitalist societies. In Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut’s critical depiction of the extremely technologized and automated social world in a near future America slightly predates and even heralds the above-mentioned critical theorists’ analyses of the ideological nature of technology under corporate capitalism. This study scrutinizes how the technocratic state in Vonnegut’s novel utilizes technology to pacify and disempower the masses, challenging the notion that technology is merely a value-free accumulation of know-how. The devalued human subject and dehumanized society depicted in Vonnegut's anti-utopian narrative are discussed with reference to Marcuse’s notion of 'one-dimensional society' and Habermas’s theory of 'communicative action' to provide the critical framework for the analysis of the impoverishing and colonizing effects of technological rationality on the lifeworld.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Kuzey Amerika Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Kültürleri

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

25 Haziran 2024

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Haziran 2024

Gönderilme Tarihi

15 Ağustos 2023

Kabul Tarihi

2 Şubat 2024

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2024 Sayı: 51

Kaynak Göster

APA
Arıtürk, M. H., & Büyüktuncay, M. (2024). Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 51, 65-84. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1343482
AMA
1.Arıtürk MH, Büyüktuncay M. Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. SEFAD. 2024;(51):65-84. doi:10.21497/sefad.1343482
Chicago
Arıtürk, Mete Han, ve Mehmet Büyüktuncay. 2024. “Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, sy 51: 65-84. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1343482.
EndNote
Arıtürk MH, Büyüktuncay M (01 Haziran 2024) Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 51 65–84.
IEEE
[1]M. H. Arıtürk ve M. Büyüktuncay, “Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano”, SEFAD, sy 51, ss. 65–84, Haz. 2024, doi: 10.21497/sefad.1343482.
ISNAD
Arıtürk, Mete Han - Büyüktuncay, Mehmet. “Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 51 (01 Haziran 2024): 65-84. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1343482.
JAMA
1.Arıtürk MH, Büyüktuncay M. Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. SEFAD. 2024;:65–84.
MLA
Arıtürk, Mete Han, ve Mehmet Büyüktuncay. “Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, sy 51, Haziran 2024, ss. 65-84, doi:10.21497/sefad.1343482.
Vancouver
1.Mete Han Arıtürk, Mehmet Büyüktuncay. Technological a priori and Communicative Action in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. SEFAD. 01 Haziran 2024;(51):65-84. doi:10.21497/sefad.1343482