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Article
Publication Date
Fall 1999
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Hedgehog Review
Abstract
Kenneth Gergen asks whether in the midst of a techno-cultural revolution the traditional conceptions of self and community continue to secure a morally viable society. Gergen examines the erosion of both individualism and communalism (and their associated institutions) by the accumulating “technologies of sociation,” the host of relatively low-cost technologies that dramatically expand and intensify social connection. He considers the effects of these technologies on the experience of a private self and argues that cumulatively they undermine the presumption of the individual as the locus of moral agency.
Recommended Citation
Kenneth J. Gergen.
(1999).
"The Self: Death By Technology".
Hedgehog Review.
Volume 1,
25-34.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/291
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