Table of contents : Acknowledgements Contents Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Karl Marx: What machines do 3 Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man and the technological veil 4 Langdon Winner: Tools without handles 5 Martin Heidegger: thinking beyond technology 6 Albert Borgmann local technologies 7 John Dewey: The making of tools 8 Bruno Latour: Networks and fabrications Bibliography Index