Formulários
Pinturas como o Édipo Rex de Max Ernst são exemplos iniciais do uso dessa qualidade. Na tecnologia, é qualquer campo da ciência que tenta tornar as máquinas e a automação mais amigáveis. Em sociologia, é usado para descrever a relação entre o homem e qualquer coisa que seja percebida como inflexível ou desumana, como escravidão, religião ou animais. Há uma alegação de que uma parte da Maçonaria, particularmente durante o século 18, também poderia ser considerada antropoteécnica no sentido de que atuava como uma casta de tecnocratas gerenciando a sociedade e a esfera humana.
Usos
In her book Education in Human Creative Existential Planning, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka uses the term Genetic Anthropotechnic as a means of ensuring that only the desired characters are inherited by future generations of human beings though the usage of genetics and hence, avoidance of the "fatalism" of inheritance. Also, in her Phenomenology of Life from the Animal Soul to the Human Mind: In search of experience , she uses the term Anthropotechnic with reference to the ability of human being to turn animals from being dangerous to "human-friendly".In their book In Medias Res: Peter Sloterdijk's Spherological Poetics of Being, Willem Schinkel uses the term Anthropotechnic to define cultural forms of automated mental and physical exercises that we humans exhibit in the face of ambiguous risk.In their paper Anthropotechnics in vehicle control - Dynamic systems control and guidance by man in light of anthropotechnics, treating approaches to man machine systems optimization, Bernotat uses the term to describe methods of adapting machine to men.In her book Bronze and iron: old Latin poetry from its beginnings to 100 B.C., Janet Lembke uses the Anthropotechnic to describe the "monstrous" connection between machine and man, as compared to social and intimate connections.In his book Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau: interactive art research, Gerfried Stocker uses the term with reference to Web 2.0 and Search engines and describes it as "a technique for the humanization of humans".In his book Introduction to Sociology, Guy Rocher define Anthropotechnic era as the period of time that began with the slavery of man and metal.
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