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36. The Concept of Function in Critical ConstructivismIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 135-160. 2017.
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51. Marx after FoucaultIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 17-37. 2017.
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72. Critical ConstructivismIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 38-65. 2017.
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53. Concretizing Simondon and ConstructivismIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 66-86. 2017.
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5Introduction: Technology and Human FinitudeIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 1-14. 2017.
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57. The Logic of ProtestIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 161-186. 2017.
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16Online Community and DemocracyJournal of Cyberspace Studies 1 (1): 37-60. 2017.The debate over the contribution of the Internet to democracy is farfrom settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the US to argue thatthe Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. This paper argues for the democratic thesis withsome qualifications. The most important contribution of the Internetto dem…Read more
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23Technology and human finitudeRevista de Filosofia Aurora 27 (40): 245. 2015.In this text I discuss the fundamental problem of human finitude. This is an issue that comes up in both sources of Western ethical tradition, both the Judaic and the Greek source. The ancient wisdom teaches human finitude and enjoins human beings to avoid hubris, the belief that they are gods. Despite, or rather because of the many advances in technology that have occurred in the past century, we can still draw on this tradition for wisdom. The text is divided into three parts: ontological fini…Read more
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34Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social TheoryPhilosophy East and West 47 (4): 605. 1997.
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15Technology, Modernity, and Democracy: Essays by Andrew Feenberg (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. The volume includes chapters on citizenship, modernity, and Heidegger and Marcuse.
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56Critical theory of technology and STSThesis Eleven 138 (1): 3-12. 2017.The Critical Theory of the early Frankfurt School promised, in Adorno’s words, a ‘rational critique of reason’. Science and Technology Studies can play a role in the renewal of this approach. STS is based on a critique of the very same technocratic and scientistic assumptions against which Critical Theory argues. Its critique of positivism and determinism has political implications. But at its origins STS took what Wiebe Bijker called the ‘detour into the academy’ in order to institutionalize it…Read more
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19Replies: On democratic interventionsThesis Eleven 138 (1): 99-108. 2017.In these replies I address criticism of my work on the grounds that I adopt a ‘humanist’ approach, underestimate the aesthetic potential of contemporary video games, overlook the role of the nation-state in resisting technological imperialism, fail to appreciate the risks of reactionary appropriations of technology, and introduce an extrinsic and dubious aesthetic value into the philosophy of technology. In the course of responding to these criticisms, I reiterate several of the basic claims of …Read more
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3Introduction to the Kosik-Sartre ExchangeTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1975 (25): 192-193. 1975.
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38Marcuse's Phenomenology: Reading Chapter Six of One‐Dimensional ManConstellations 20 (4): 604-614. 2013.
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101Involving the Virtual SubjectEthics and Information Technology 2 (4): 233-240. 2000.As users of computer networks have become more active in producing their own electronic records, in the form of transcripts of onlinediscussions, ethicists have attempted to interpret this new situation interms of earlier models of personal data protection. But thistransference results in unprecedented problems for researchers. Thispaper examines some of the central dichotomies and paradoxes in thedebate on research ethics online in the context of the concrete study ofa virtual community that we…Read more
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106Questioning TechnologyRoutledge. 1999.In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance. In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. …Read more
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The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert MarcuseHuman Studies 31 (2): 233-239. 2008.
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178Marcuse or Habermas: Two critiques of technologyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 39 (1). 1996.The debate between Marcuse and Habermas over technology marked a significant turning point in the history of the Frankfurt School. After the 1960s Habermas's influence grew as Marcuse's declined and Critical Theory adopted a far less Utopian stance. Recently there has been a revival of quite radical technology criticism in the environmental movement and under the influence of Foucault and constructivism. This article takes a new look at the earlier debate from the standpoint of these recent deve…Read more
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70The technocracy thesis revisited: On the critique of powerInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (1). 1994.No abstract
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79The Mediation is the MessageTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17 (1): 7-24. 2013.Critical theory of technology brings technology studies to bear on the social theory of rationality. This paper discusses this connection through a reconsideration of the contribution of the Frankfurt School to our understanding of what I call the paradox of rationality, the fact that the promise of the Enlightenment has been disappointed as advances in scientific and technical knowledge have led to more and more catastrophic consequences. The challenge for critical theory is to understand this …Read more
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38Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of HistoryRoutledge. 2004.First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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98Subversive rationalization: Technology, power, and democracyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 35 (3-4). 1992.This paper argues, against technological and economic determinism, that the dominant model of industrial society is politically contingent. The idea that technical decisions are significantly constrained by ?rationality? ? either technical or economic ? is shown to be groundless. Constructivist and hermeneutic approaches to technology show that modern societies are inherently available for a different type of development in a different cultural framework. It is possible that, in the future, thos…Read more
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