Bodies in Technology (review)
David R. Koukal · Technology and Culture · 2002
Don Ihde is a noted philosopher of technology, and Bodies in Technology is the latest in a long list of publications representing his efforts to understand technology from a phenomenological perspective. In all his work on technology, Ihde draws on Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) and his notion of the "body-subject"—that is, the notion that as subjects we are embodied, and to that extent our being is inextricably enmeshed in the world. This irreducible relationship between body and world is the sole source of meaning.