The fetish of technology and the teleologization of history: critical analysis of technological irrationalism

Abstract

The aim of our study was to analyze the different perspectives about technology indicating a possible linkage between historical and ideological authors considered references in its appropriations about technology. To this, we systematically checked the particularity of the object (technology) in its abstraction (theory revision) in order to identify its impact on the materiality historically developed. Given the broad spectrum that permeates the technology and its philosophical, economic and social aspects, it became necessary to analyze the ideological framework that is the main battle field, because both pessimistic and optimistic strands about the technology do not try to understand it from its ontological constitution foundation. So, the fetish of technology promoted by certain authors reviewed here provides the objective conditions for the "naturalization" of control that capital exerts on the labor force, a characteristic necessary for the process of appreciation of value.