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Hornborg, A. Comments on Maximilian Pieper, ‘Technology as a Strategy of the Human? A Comparison Between the Extension Concept and the Fetish Concept of Technology’. Philos. Technol. 37, 18 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00714-2

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