All of the following claims can be inferred from the passage, EXCEPT:
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Explanatory Answer
The passage does say that technologies, like laws and customs, shape their inhabitants by ‘privileging certain dimensions of their human nature’. But it does not say that technologies do so 'at a high cost to lived nature'. Option A cannot be inferred.
The passage explains that customs such as parental authority represent the 'interest of childhood in safety and growth', and goes on to say that 'this notion of representation does not imply an eternal human nature'. So, option B is implied.
Option C is inferred based on the lines, "A hermeneutics of technology must make explicit the meanings implicit in the devices we use and the rituals they script. Social histories of technologies such as the bicycle, artificial lighting or firearms have made important contributions to this type of analysis. Critical theory of technology attempts to build a methodological approach on the lessons of these histories."
Option D is inferred from the first paragraph, which says that according to the critical theory of technology, "advances in the formal claims of human rights take center stage while in the background centralization of ever more powerful public institutions and private organizations imposes an authoritarian social order".
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