Marx's Critical Theory Of Technology And Its Contemporary Significance

Technology is closely related to the development of human society,the progress of the technology is changing people's production and life and the face of the world,promoting the progress of human civilization,but in the development process of technology,technologyproduced all kinds of contradictions with people,nature,society,which caused the alienation of human and nature,so a critique of technology become a hot topic in the academic circles.And Marx faced technologywhen he critiqued the capitalist society,he proposed his own view about the problems of technology and formed a technology critical views and thoughts,but academic circles has any difference explanation about this question,and there are many misunderstandingsabout the relationship between human,nature,society,especially not put the technology in the social relations to understand.So we need to further study of Marx's critical theory of technology,eliminate their misunderstanding,clarify the essence.In the human-technology-natural relationship chain,the first technology is the creation of human beings,nature is one of the objects of technology,and technologyis an intermediaryto deal with the relationship between man and nature.In this process,peoplegradually formed a relationship between man and man,i.e.society.The relationshipbetween technology and human,natureis occurring in a certain society and certain social relations.Marx discussed technology from the perspective of historical materialism.Technology originated in the human needs,it's the objectification of human power.However,in the capitalist social,technology has led to human alienation,which resultingthe enslavement to man and the destruction of the human body.In order to eliminate alienation and achieve human freedom and liberation,we rely on technological advances and the innovation of industry,commerce,agriculture and social communication model.This is a historical activity.Nature is also an important presentationwhenwe discuss technology.Technology is an important means to change nature.The production and development of technology have a certain material basis and follow a certain natural laws.In the contemporary,the development of technology caused the natural alienation,i.e.the global ecological crisis.Howeverthe most important source of the ecological crisisis not the technology,but its application in capitalist society.So in order to achieve reconciliation between man and nature,we not only rely on the development of technology,what's more important is that to abandon thecapitalist system.At the same time in Marx's view,there is interaction between technology and society,this interaction is three-dimensional and multi-level.On the one hand,technical activities exist in all areas of social life,technology plays a revolutionary role in social development,another Technology existin the social,the society constraints,influence,shape the technology,the technical determinism is a misunderstanding of Marx.In contemporary society,capital becomes the axis of the society,technology hasalso become an important background of our survival,and there is a close relationship between them.On the one hand,technology and capital are consistent,technology promote the proliferation of capital,and capital promote the developmentof technology;on the other hand,technology and capital deviate from each other,capital hinder the progress of technology,and technology have atendency totranscend the capital.The alliance of technology and capital leads to the emergence of modern production methods-industrial production systems.It is also the modern industrial production system that constitutes the realistic basis of technology and capital collusion.On the basis of the modern mode of production,the political,economic,cultural and artistic have been changed,the ideas and the way of thinking of the modern people have also been changed,and then the capital has expanded outward,and formed the world market,and finally became the main social form ofour time and created the basic face of our society.The alliance of technology and capitalpromote the development and progress of society,and it's an important reason for the generation of modernity.Now we criticize the modernity,it is necessary to combinethe critique of technology and the critique of the material production relations which technology exist in,i.e.capital,so that we can combine the critics of weapons and weapons in order to achieve a strong response to modernity.To criticize the capital,we must abandon the concept that technology servicefor the capital,we need establish the conceptof humanization of technology,and clear the ultimate goal of technological development is the human beings,not the capital.