We live in a technologically mediated lifeworld and culture. Technologies either magnify or
amplify human experiences. They can change the ways we live. Technology has been woven into the
social and cultural fabric of different cultures. German phenomenologist philosopher Bernhard
Irrgang for than 2 decades engaging with the questions what role does technology play in
everyday human experience? How do technological artefacts affect people's existence and their
relations with the world? And how do instruments devices and apparatuses produce and transform
human knowledge? Along with Albert Borgmann Larry Hickman Don Ihde Carl Mitcham Hans Poser
Peter-Paul Verbeek Walther Zimmerli contemporary German philosopher of technology Bernhard
Irrgang provides a useful vocabulary for understanding the ways we relate to technology and to
the world through technologies in different cultures.
