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technos

technos noun: the technological means.

Noun

technos

  1. The technological means.
    • But confusion persists because of the more contentious issue between the technos and the telos of music and art making in general, the instruments versus the purposes to which they are put, the means and the ends.2005, Mathew Callahan, The Trouble with Music, page 83
    • the collapsing of bios and technos into each other is not only politically naive, producing a completely reified grand narrative of technology as the true agent and telos of natural and (in)human historyKeith Ansell-Pearson, quoted in 2014, Paul D. Miller, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Svitlana Matviyenko, The Imaginary App (page 94)

Origin of technos

From technology, by analogy with telos. The actual etymon of technology is τέχνη (tékhnē).

Questions about technos

What does technos mean?
Technos means the technological means.
What part of speech is technos?
Technos is a noun.

Words near technos in the dictionary

  1. technorealists
  2. technorganic
  3. technorock
  4. technoromantic
  5. technoromanticism
  6. technos
  7. technoscape
  8. technoscapes
  9. technosceptic
  10. technosceptical
  11. technoscepticism

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