The projectof the modern engineerin

The project
of the modern engineering enterprise colonizes the human lifeworld by imposing
upon it the values of efWciency and productivity. That discussion
assumes engineering is a decontextualized project that comes up with
products of various sorts that impact the lifeworld. The true contextualized
nature of the engineering project was bracketed in order to focus on
colonization. In this chapter, I will make my analysis more comprehensive
by discussing the contextualized nature of the engineering project
without the need to bracket the colonization effect of it. Context, which
the modern engineering enterprise sidesteps whenever it can, is more fully
engaged within the premodern engineering endeavor. My working premise
is that everything at least initially occurs within a context in both
modern and premodern engineering.