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	Technocratic movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The technocratic movement was a social movement in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that advocated a form of society where the welfare of human beings is optimized by means of scientific analysis and widespread use of technology.
		Technocrats claim that the price system entails a severe lack of purchasing power, and has been propped up by wasteful tactics, major patches to the economic system, and increasingly huge amounts of debt, which began to increase exponentially after 1930.
		Technocrats propose that all of the old cities in the technate should be gradually abandoned and mined for their resources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technocratic_movement (2515 words)

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		It criticizes the technocratic ideology on the basis of which France was being reconstructed as a streamlined modern society in the 1960s.
		It is of course still quite uncertain that the attack on technocracy from above in the student movement and the administrations could have been successfully coordinated with the attack on capitalism from below in the radical wing of the workers' movement.
		Since positivistic and technocratic ideologies limited the social imaginary, an attack on these limits appeared as an attack on a certain conception of rationality which, for the first time, became a political issue.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/MAYTALK2.HTM (3426 words)

	Unofficial Technocracy FAQ Ver. 1.2 (HTML)
		There may be Technocrats in your area; contact them using the information in this FAQ and they would be more than happy to talk to you, invite you to a local meeting, or perhaps even a Technocracy event, such as a lecture or seminar.
		Technocrats from around the continent continued to be well informed about what was going on in the world, so that they could constantly report accurate data to support their announcements.
		The Technocratic society, or Technate, would embrace the entire North American Continent plus the peripheral islands north to the North Pole, the West Indian archipelago, and those in the Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line and north of the Equator.
	technocrat.phpwebhosting.com /simp/Technocracy_FAQ_1.x.htm (18649 words)

	Biophysical economics - Encyclopedia of Earth
		The use of energy as a unifying concept for social, political and economic analysis reached a zenith with the technocratic movement in the USA and Canada during the 1930s.
		Although the Alliance lasted only a few years, the Depression provided fertile ground for the re-emergence of the technocratic movement which used depressed economic conditions as a rallying point for their call for a complete overhaul of existing economic and political institutions.
		The technocratic philosophy assumed that energy was the critical factor determining economic and social development.
	www.eoearth.org /article/Biophysical_economics (9095 words)

	Italy:2300 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Technocratic Humanism: This was a philosophical movement, and the art, literature and politics associated with it flowed from that basis.
		It was particularly popular in Italy on account of its sensitive study of the formative agonies of the Nuova Italia movement One consequence was are new and critical analysis of the concept of the nation state and, in the intellectual classes at least, its rejection.
		Politically the effects were liberalizing and progressive Technocratic humanism had no set creed but concerned the discovery of the inner plan whatever it was.
	users2.ev1.net /~redroach/ad2300/ItalyC.htm (3552 words)

	Chapter Thirty-Two, FASCIST TRENDS IN THE UNITED STATES
		The technocrat, like the typical utopian, believed that all that was needed was to work out "a plan," then to prove its reasonableness by scientifically showing how the workings of the present system had led to chaos, waste, and destruction.
		Thus the technocrat was really a rationalist, and showed that he had not as yet emerged from the chrysalis of the college classroom to know the meaning of life.
		The reform movement was spurred on during the War when the federal government established great army training camps which had all the facilities of modern cities and which were put under the control of practical managers, known as "officers in charge of utilities," who were often members of the City Managers Association.
	www.weisbord.org /conquest32.htm (13586 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "The Growth of Science: Romantic and Technocratic Images" by Aant Elzinga
		Being a child of a reaction to the technocratic optimism of an earlier century, it promotes intuition as superior, while scientific reason is equated with an advance of mechanization in human life.
		It is striking how this technocratic utopia in a sense makes more substantial in a later social context some of the ideas of Francis Bacon and his model of a House of Wisdom or learning as an institution with political import.
		Within the radical environmentalist movement and amongst feminists, there appear similar critiques wherein science as social relations tends to be relativized—as a part of an historical apparatus evolved to dominate nature, or as part of a male chauvinist, sexist, racist institution of domination.
	www.autodidactproject.org /other/aant3.html (9214 words)

	Technocracy: Scientifically-managed economy w/o profiteering : Fool Moon
		It pretty much did fail during the Great Depression, at the height of the Technocratic movement, which apparently was the largest social movement during that era, with hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and Canada participating in lectures, discussions, forums, etc. in just about every city and every town.
		The Technocrats would agree with you, and some of them think that awareness of their proposals has been deliberately minimized by the powers-that-be, mainly the political and corporate leaders in America.
		Technocrats know that if a Technate were instituted in North America (which would include Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and Central America), those in power today would most likely be stripped of said power.
	foolmoon.com /showflat.php?Number=343596 (1297 words)

	MyDD :: The Hacks and The Wonks
		It is a movement distinctly non-ideological, for whom the battle is not within the party, but against the Republican Party and stopping their agenda.
		In other words, I think it can be safely argued that it was the long-term dominance of practical, technocratic liberalism that led to paralysis on the part of the party establishment while the conservative movement slowly built itself up from the ground.
		It thus strikes me that one of the main reasons a practical, governing consensus was eventually defeated by a rising political movement was because it refused to be any but a practical, governing consensus (and, in all too many cases, still refuses to accept it is anything but that now).
	www.mydd.com /story/2005/8/25/13350/4012 (3581 words)

	Neoconservativism: The Cult of Techno-Socialism \| Paul and Phillip Collins
		Given their emphasis on comprehensive economic and social planning, the technocratic theory is ready-made both to guide and to legitimate the centralized bureaucratic decision-making systems that direct most socialist regimes.
		“The technocrats attempted to pull all of these strands--their faith in positivistic science; their mechanistic view of man with his essentially animal-like irrationality, his desire for security, abundance, and tranquility; the organizational imperative caused by natural inequality; and the dominance of technology--together into one functional ideal whole.
		This, the technocratic agenda of a fully functional "scientific dictatorship," is the objective to which the neoconservatives have resolutely committed themselves.
	www.conspiracyarchive.com /Commentary/Technocrats.htm (3529 words)

	HEALTH MOVEMENT IN INDIA
		The main thrust of this movement is self-reliance based on the resources and initiative of the participants themselves.
		One level of he health movement is to struggle against ill influence on health (pollution, lack of sanitation, poor nutrition, psychosocial factors etc), and work for a society which has an alternative, healthier pattern of development.
		One major thrust of the health movement has been to generate public awareness regarding the commercialised, and to an extent, the exploitative nature of health care in our country today, and to generate pressure for changes in health policies, making them responsive to people's needs.
	www.cehat.org /publications/pa38a92.html (1752 words)

	The Empire versus the New Barbarians
		The cornerstone of the Third World NIEO movement (as well as of the Soviet posture in the Brezhnev era), national sovereignty and non-interference in the internal affairs of states, was delegitimised in this normative structure.
		Although the second, technocratic strand in the NIEO movement, articulated by the managerial cadre, had precisely advocated reaching beyond national sovereignty, its discursive framework was one of global justice and survival which was fundamentally different from the Lockean perspective by which the Western ruling class sought to recapture the initiative from its challengers.
		There is no question that the Gorbachev proposals received their widest resonance in the West, among the same classes which had supported the peace movement and before that, the NIEO idea in its technocratic version—i.e., the managerial cadre or new middle class.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /Units/IRPol/Seminars/NWO/empire.html (5295 words)

	Welcome to the Technate! - Pop Occulture
		The technocratic movement in the United States was originally begun by Howard Scott, who created the Technical Alliance after World War I, which was one of the nation’s first think tanks.
		[…] The reason given by the Technocratic movement for all this ambitious restructuring of urban life is that modern cities are often extremely poorly planned and built in a haphazard way leading to major inefficiencies, waste, and large numbers of social and environmental problems.
		The “technocratic and policy-oriented intellectuals” are to be admired for their unquestioning obedience to power and their services in social management, while the “value-oriented intellectuals” must be despised and feared for the serious challenge they pose to democratic government, by “unmasking and delegitimatization of established institutions.”
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2006/07/27/welcome-to-the-technate (6078 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Leo Strauss, Conservative Mastermind by Robert Locke
		Technocratic, legalistic, and empirical criticism of liberalism is all very well, but it is not enough.
		He believes that contemporary liberalism is the logical outcome of the philosophical principles of modernity, taken to their extremes.
		The modern view leads naturally to value-free social science and social policies that seek to solve social problems through technocratic manipulation that refrains from "imposing value judgments" on the objects of its concern.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1233 (2944 words)

	Robot News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hundreds of bomb disposal robots such as the iRobot Packbot and the Foster-Miller Talon are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S. military to defuse roadside bombs, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in an activity known as Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD).
		A problem with the development of robots with natural gaits is that human and animal bodies utilize a very large number of muscles in movement and replicating all of those mechanically is very difficult and expensive.
		Once all relevant positions, velocities and accelerations have been calculated using kinematics, methods from the field of dynamics are used to study the effect of forces upon these movements.
	homebotics.com /Default.htm (3547 words)

	The Second Superpower
		This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one.
		While some of the leaders have become highly visible, what is perhaps most interesting about this global movement is that it is not really directed by visible leaders, but, as we will see, by the collective, emergent action of its millions of participants.
		This has the effect of both amplifying the patterns and facilitating community reflection on the topics highlighted.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /people/jmoore/secondsuperpower.html (3521 words)

	Technology, Philosophy, Politics
		Obscured in the identitarian classification of the new social movements is the potentially unifying articulation supplied by technology, which is often the stakes in their struggle.
		In terms of social impact, the distinction is not so important: reliance on technocratic arguments evokes similar reactions from the administered whether the computer is really “down” or the employee behind the counter too lazy to consult it.
		These movements of the ‘60s created a context and an audience for the break with technocratic determinism that had already begun in the theoretical domain in the works of Mumford and a few other sceptical observers of the postwar scene.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/feenberg/prefchap1eng.htm (7338 words)

	What's So Special about Specialized Courts? The State and Social Change in Salt Lake City's Domestic Violence Court Law ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		They suggest that technocratic rationality undermines the democratic values formally embodied in the adversarial system-defendants' rights, judicial impartiality, and due process-while furthering state imperatives of social control and social order.
		Social movements such as the battered women's movement have also been wary of technocratic justice as overcoming the movement's values of grassroots participation and social change (Dobash & Dobash 1992; Pence 1987; Schneider 2000).
		Has the technocratic justice adopted from the state overcome the substantive goals adopted from the battered women's movement, as critics of the technocratic state would predict, or are the tensions between technocratic and substantive justice reconcilable?
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3757/is_200506/ai_n14687058 (931 words)

	[The following essay appeared (with minor differences) in Polity 29 (1997) 345-74
		The consequent propensity is to view the moderate or reform elements of a movement as being in complicity with hegemonic forces.
		Various authoritarian and technocratic modes of governance were advanced as necessary solutions to an escalating environmental crisis in which human beings were rapidly destroying their niche in the biosphere.
		The current of postpositivism, moreover, is itself clearly influenced by the advent of social movements such as environmentalism and constitutes a voice of dissent within policy professionalism itself--a dissenting form of professionalism.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /tps/e-print/voices.htm (10970 words)

	The Pro-Democracy Movement in ICANN
		The pro-democracy movement consisted largely of "outsiders." Here were many Internet user groups, free speech organizations, and a number of distinguished individuals in the technology and policy community, all loosely joined together in opposition to what they saw as a takeover of the Internet by special interests.
		In this case the formation of a movement and that movement's use of Internet technology were not conceptually distinct, because it was a movement of Internet users.
		Furthermore, the "success" of this movement is not yet decided, since user representation in ICANN is still the object of intense opposition by the e-commerce community.
	www.atlargestudy.org /kleinpaper.html (4555 words)

	MEDICAL TECHNOCRACY
		The Technocrats believed that the world should be run by the men who understood the technology that was transforming the world.
		Interestingly, the Technocratic movement lost a lot of its luster when men such as Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler took their ideas and tried putting them into practice.
		Of course, any Technocrat still around might complain that their ideas were misunderstood and never really tried out.
	www.pulpless.com /jneil/medcracy.html (1082 words)

	The student movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In what follows, I argue that the student movement really is a political force in Indonesian society, but that it must be understood both as subject and object in an intellectual discourse that circulates among the urban middle class.
		Beginning at this time, the student movement came to be characterised by a new intellectual and political maturity, the product of the 'discussion groups' of the mid-1980s, and part of the broadly based response to theories of dependency, neo-marxian structuralism, Islamic modernism and feminism of the period.
		One of the 'internal' difficulties that confronts the student movement is the strategic dilemma and/ or divisions within the movement over what is termed reflective intellectualism versus confrontative action, or the cultural, as opposed to political approach.
	www.serve.com /inside/edit48/ariel.htm (2675 words)

	CPN - Civic Renewal Movement
		Precisely this public participation—in the movement's rallies, sit-ins, demonstrations, voter registration drives, Citizenship schools, and practical, day-to-day practices of community problem-solving—generated the movement spirit, despite violent opposition and situations of great danger.
		Despite the technocratic, therapeutic, moralized temper of our age, a sense of citizenship that combines the practical work of problem solving with a larger civic vision, an understanding of the citizen as producer of our larger commonwealth, has renewed relevance.
		This was the case with the movement for fl civil rights in the 1960s, for instance, and with modern feminism's assertion of women's entitlement to equal public roles.
	www.cpn.org /crm/contemporary/beyond.html (5236 words)

	Phillip D. Collins -- Cultivating Criminality - Part 2
		E.H. Carr characterizes Saint-Simon as “the precursor of socialism, the precursor of the technocrats, and the precursor of totalitarianism” (2).
		The technocratic character of sociology is illustrated by the field’s inherent scientism.
		Ever-present is the machine motif, which was also a hallmark of the technocratic movement of the early thirties.
	newswithviews.com /Collins/phillip13.htm (2990 words)

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