Book contents
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Ayn Rand
from 12 - Technology, Progress, and Environment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2022
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Field and Discipline
- 2 Geopolitics and War
- 3 Imperialism
- 4 Anticolonialism
- 5 International Law and International Organization
- 6 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
- 7 World Peace
- 8 World Economy
- 9 Men, Women, and Gender
- 10 Public Opinion and Education
- 11 Population, Nation, Immigration
- 12 Technology, Progress, and Environment
- From The Barbarization of the Skies (1912)
- From “Talk at Aviation Luncheon” (1934)
- From Cultural Relations and Technical Change (1953)
- From “Ideologies of Delayed Industrialization” (1962)
- From Silent Spring (1962)
- From Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 (1964)
- From The New Left (1971)
- “On Photography” (1973)
- Bertha von Suttner
- Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen
- Margaret Mead
- Mary Matossian
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Gowing
- Ayn Rand
- Susan Sontag
- 13 Religion and Ethics
- Index
Summary
In today’s drugged orgy of boastfully self-righteous swinishness, the masks are coming down and you can hear all but explicit confessions of that hatred. For example, five years ago, on the occasion of the East Coast’s massive power failure and blackout, Life magazine published the following in its issue of November 19, 1965: “It shouldn’t happen every evening, but a crisis like the lights going out has its good points. In the first place, it deflates human smugness about our miraculous technology, which, at least in the area of power distribution and control, now stands revealed as utterly flawed … and it is somehow delicious to contemplate the fact that all our beautiful brains and all those wonderful plans and all that marvelous equipment has combined to produce a system that is unreliable.”
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- Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon , pp. 673 - 677Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022