Abstract
One of the most distinctive features of recent radical protest has been a growing opposition to technology and the technological society. In some of its forms, this goes far beyond a condemnation of the abuses of science to an attack not only on rationality but on reason itself., There is nothing particularly new of course about romanticist anti-science movements.2 In contrast to the cold impersonality of rational calculation and planning, such movements celebrate the importance of individuality, humanity, creativity, spontaneity and community. But what is more recent is the extension of the argument to a critique of the 'technological society', seen as a world wide phenomenon, in which, it is argued, human values are negated, and imagination and spontaneity are stifled by rational bureaucratic structures and impersonal techniques. Moreover, science also stands in the dock, as the new
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