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46Symmetry, asymmetry, and the real possibility of radical change: reply to KochanStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (4): 721-727. 2006.In his critique of my book Heidegger and Marcuse, Jeff Kochan (2006) asserts that I am committed to the possibility of private knowledge, transcendent truths, and individualism. In this reply I argue that he has misinterpreted my analysis of the Challenger disaster and Marcuse’s work. Because I do not dismiss Roger Boisjoly’s doubts about the Challenger launch, Kochan believes that I have abandoned a social concept of knowledge for a reliance on the private knowledge of a single individual. In f…Read more
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Reification and the Antinomies of Socialist ThoughtTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 10 (n/a): 93. 1971.
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New Grounds for Revolution, The Early Marx in a Lukácsian PerspectivePhilosophical Forum 8 (2): 186. 1976.
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What is the philosophy of technology?In John R. Dakers (ed.), Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, Palgrave-macmillan. 2006.
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16Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social TheoryUniversity of California Press. 1995.In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. He calls into question the anti-technological stance commonly associated with its theoretical legacy and argues that technology contains potentialities that could be devel…Read more
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11Introduction to the Kosik-Sartre ExchangeTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1975 (25): 192-193. 1975.
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53The Online Education Controversy and the Future of the UniversityFoundations of Science 22 (2): 363-371. 2017.The neo-liberal reform of the university has had a huge impact on higher education and promises still more changes in the future. Many of these changes have had a negative impact on academic careers, values, and the educational experience. Educational technology plays an important role in the defense of neo-liberal reform, less through actual accomplishment than as a rhetorical justification for supposed “progress.” This paper outlines the main claims and consequences of this rhetorical strategy…Read more
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29Fracchia and Burkett on Tailism and the DialecticHistorical Materialism 23 (2): 228-238. 2015.This commentary addresses criticism of Lukács’s early book Tailism and the Dialectic: A Defence of History and Class Consciousness. Two critiques published in Historical Materialism are analysed and alternative interpretations of Lukács’s theory developed. The commentary focuses on Lukács’s theories of class consciousness and his ideas on the social construction of nature.
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6Civilizational Politics and Dissenting IndividualsRadical Philosophy Review 2 (2): 152-160. 1999.
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71Peter-Paul Verbeek: Review of What Things Do: The Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN 0-271-02540-9 (review)Human Studies 32 (2): 225-228. 2009.
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51The Technical Codes of Online EducationTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 9 (1): 97-123. 2005.
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31Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and ModernityMIT Press. 2010.The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, technology, and economics. These problems are exacerbated by the fact that today powerful technologies have unforeseen effects that disrupt everyday life; the new masters of technology are not restrained by the lessons of exp…Read more
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12La réalisation de la philosophie : Marx, Lukács et l'École de FrancfortPhilosophie 133 (2): 52-67. 2017.
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149Transforming technology: a critical theory revisitedOxford University Press. 2002.Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials on political theory, but the emphasis has shifted to reflect a growing interest in the fields of technology and cultural studies.
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63Philosophy and Technology Session on Bodies in TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 7 (2): 120-124. 2003.
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Heidegger and Marcuse: On reification and concrete philosophy'In Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 171. 2013.
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28The May 1968 Archives: A Presentation of the Anti-Technocratic Struggle in May 1968PhaenEx 4 (2): 45-59. 2009.This essay argues that the events of May ’68 were not without substantial political content. Drawing on the May Events Archives at SFU, the author argues that the protests were not a vastly overblown student plank, but represented an important attempt to establish a politics of civilizational identity and to answer the questions: what kind of people are we, and what can we expect as a basic minimum level of justice and equality in our affairs?
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41Simondon e o construtivismo: uma contribuição recursiva à teoria da concretizaçãoScientiae Studia 13 (2): 263-281. 2015.ResumoEste artigo defende que a teoria da concretização de Gilbert Simondon é útil tanto para os estudos sobre ciência e tecnologia quanto para a teoria política. Por "concretização", Simondon compreende o processo de multiplicação de funções propiciadas pelas estruturas de um dispositivo. Ele oferece o exemplo do motor com resfriamento a ar, que combina resfriamento e contenção em uma única estrutura, a caixa do motor. A concretização contrasta com projetos "abstratos", que acrescentam estrutur…Read more
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110Review of Moishe Postone, Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press. 424 pages. ISBN (review)Theory and Society. forthcoming.
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105On being a human subject: interest and obligation in the experimental treatment of incurable diseasePhilosophical Forum 23 (3): 213-230. 1992.
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Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design ProcessIn Pieter E. Vermaas, Peter Kroes, Andrew Light & Steven A. Moore (eds.), Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Springer. pp. 105. 2008.
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8A user’s guide to the pragmatics of computer mediated communicationSemiotica 75 (3-4): 257-278. 1989.
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142Ten Paradoxes of TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 14 (1): 3-15. 2010.Though we may be competent at using many technologies, most of what we think we know about technology in general is false. Our error stems from the everyday conception of things as separate from each other and from us. In reality technologies belong to an interconnected network the nodes of which cannot exist independently qua technologies. What is more we tend to see technologies as quasi-natural objects, but they are just as much social as natural, just as much determined by the meanings we gi…Read more
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604From critical theory of technology to the rational critique of rationalitySocial Epistemology 22 (1). 2008.This paper explores the sense in which modern societies can be said to be rational. Social rationality cannot be understood on the model of an idealized image of scientific method. Neither science nor society conforms to this image. Nevertheless, critique is routinely silenced by neo-liberal and technocratic arguments that appeal to social simulacra of science. This paper develops a critical strategy for addressing the resistance of rationality to rational critique. Romantic rejection of reason …Read more
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