Interpretation Of Technology From The View Of Postmodernist Philosophy

The development of technology had prompted the fall of postmodern society. One of the causing effects of modern technology is the postmodernist thoughts. Technology, as a most critical issue and fundamental phenomenon, calls attention of postmodernist philosophy.The postmodernist philosophy alleges that it is the rescript of characteristics and proclamation possessed by modernity. This means the changes of thinking mode, the conversion of academic view, the reconstruction of theory pattern and conception. In the new context, the cognitional and practical objects which we have constructed traditionally will show different appearances and characteristics. After Martin Heidegger narrated technology in a anti-modern way, delegates of postmodernist philosophy had pondered technology in their individual theoretic view and academic pattern. Technology appears different visages compared to the former in postmodernist philosophy context. Lyotard view modern technology as one of the modern "meta-narration", which hadn't brought the committed liberty and welfare, quite the reverse, it executed the function of legalizing the defects of modernity. From view of post-structuralism, Michel Foucault thought technology was the sort of micro-implementing-mechanism of "knowledge/power/moral", thus, technology is not only a tool of attaining goal, but always a socially and historically governing strategy. Jean Baudrillard read text of technology from symbolics, and he regarded the artifacts as a suit of signal system in which the downright department of "signier" and "signied" causes the main puzzle of modern technology.From the characteristic thoughts that the postmodernist philosophy delegates delivered concerning technology, we can find evidently that it is the consideration to the fortune of modernity that united the subject of technology with the trend of postmodernist philosophy. In the historic circumstances, philosophy of technology gradually developed into a organizational subject and in the same time the post-modernism philosophy, as a fundamental turn of thinking mode and theoretic view, became distinct in varied fields of theory and practice. Therefor, philosophy of technology, as a branch of philosophy family, will show distinct characteristics in the illumination of postmodernist philosophical wisdom. From 80th of 20'st, the contemporary Occident research of philosophy of technology showed the tendency of "empirical turn", which is essentially the response and identity of postmodern thinking mode, and corresponds to the "little narration" that postmodernist philosophy claimed.