Article ID: CBB001024289

Technology and Totalitarian Ideas in Interwar Greece (2010)

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Antoniou, Yiannis (Author)
Bogiatzis, Vassilis (Author)


HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Volume: 4
Pages: Approx. 5,000 words


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: http://johost.eu/?oid=99&act=&area=3&ri=1&itid= (Accessed on August 23, 2011)
Language: English

This paper is an account of modernity, technology and totalitarian ideology in interwar Greece. We argue that the challenge of modernization and technological development of the country was the starting point for the emergence of technocratic ideas strongly connected with nationalism, a kind of a Greek technonationalism. Scientific objectivity, technological efficiency, rationalization, were to be part of the eternal national essences, and they were conceived as key elements for the rapid modernization and westernization of Greece. The instrumental idea of progress, as well as the requirement for technological development, was gradually correlated with criticisms of economical and political liberalism and the rise of control and totalitarian ideas. The anticipation for an effective organization of society should be assimilated trough homogenized standards of factory production. As stated by the sociologist P. Wagner, the image of the society as a machine was a rather trivial idea for the time and the iron cage metaphor didn't represent a social threat.

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Authors & Contributors
Macola, Giacomo
Santa Frescura Nepoti
Vec, Miloš
Urwand, Ben
Lascoumes, Pierre
Kerr, Ian J.
Concepts
Technology and politics
Technology
Technology and society
Nationalism
Technology and government
Engineering
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
United States
Spain
India
Niagara Falls
Yugoslavia
Estonia
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