Abstract
Technology changes our identity, with the same ambiguous results Burke saw evidence of all around him eighty years ago. 1 His reaction was to counsel caution, even repudiation, but his dialectical rhetoric and comic corrective offer a more nuanced theoretical approach to the ambiguous conversation between humans and technology. His theories point toward a means to replace both his extreme distrust of technology and industrial communities' previous naïve optimism with an active, critical shrewdness.
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- KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
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- 2017-04
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