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83Book Symposium on Andrew Feenberg’s Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity: Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010Philosophy and Technology 24 (2): 203-226. 2011.Book Symposium on Andrew Feenberg’s Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity Content Type Journal Article Pages 203-226 DOI 10.1007/s13347-011-0017-8 Authors Inmaculada de Melo-Martín, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA David B. Ingram, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626, USA Sally Wyatt, e-Humanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) & Maastricht University, Cr…Read more
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8Marxism and formalism: On Ian Angus’s Groundwork of Phenomenological MarxismThesis Eleven 176 (1): 101-109. 2023.
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23Marcuse’s critique of technology todayPhilosophy and Social Criticism 49 (6): 672-685. 2023.Marcuse was the face of the Frankfurt School during the 1960s and '70s. His eclipse led, among other unfortunate consequences, to the disappearance of his critique of science and technology. That critique is based on an experiential ontology that derives in part from Marcuse’s background in phenomenology. In this paper I trace the roots of that ontology in his early interpretation of Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. One-Dimensional Man takes up the phenomenological critique…Read more
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32Book Symposium on The Philosophy of Simondon: Between Technology and Individuation: By Pascal Chabot Bloomsbury Academic, 2013Philosophy and Technology 28 (2): 297-322. 2015.
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152Heidegger's Aporetic Ontology of TechnologyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 53 (1): 1-19. 2010.The aim of this inquiry is to investigate Heidegger's ontology of technology. We will show that this ontology is aporetic. In Heidegger's key technical essays, ?The question concerning technology? and its earlier versions ?Enframing? and ?The danger?, enframing is described as the ontological basis of modern life. But the account of enframing is ambiguous. Sometimes it is described as totally binding and at other times it appears to allow for exceptions. This oscillation between, what we will ca…Read more
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85Emancipation, Progress, Critique: Debating Amy Allen’s The End of ProgressContemporary Political Theory 17 (4): 511-541. 2018.
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14Critical Theory of TechnologyIn Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Critical Theories of Technology Technology and Democracy Code and Bias Modernity, Premodernity, Alternative Modernity References and Further Reading.
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11Introduction to the new edition -- The philosophy of praxis -- The demands of reason -- Metacritique of the concept of nature -- Reification and rationality -- The realization of philosophy -- The controversy over subject-object identity -- From Lukács to the Frankfurt School -- The last philosophy of praxis -- Philosophy of praxis: summary and significance -- Appendix: the unity of theory and practice.
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17Explains Marcuse's philosophy, especially his critique of science and technology.
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10A New Concept of Reason?Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 59 (4): 189-220. 2022.In One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse followed Husserl in arguing that modern natural science translates concepts and practices from the Lebenswelt, the everyday lifeworld. Marcuse claimed that a socialist revolution would change that life-world and transform natural science. He anticipated a new concept of reason that would incorporate potentialities experienced in the lifeworld. Teleological aspects of everyday experience would be “materialized” by science. Marcuse’s critique of social scien…Read more
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15Lukács's two concepts of natureMetodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 9 (2): 157-170. 2021.The concept of nature in Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness is ambiguous. In some contexts, “nature” refers to a scientifc representation, while in other contexts it refers to the lived object of labor practice. The distinction is complicated by the role of the concept of reification in Lukács’s discussion of nature in both these senses. This paper endeavors to sort out the complexities and to show the relevance of Lukács’s concepts of nature to contemporary technical politics.
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110Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology RelationsLexington Books. 2015.This book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use
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17Section 2. Boundary DisagreementsTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (4): 9-28. 2020.
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27Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism: A Recursive Contribution to the Theory of ConcretizationScience, Technology, and Human Values 42 (1): 62-85. 2017.This article argues that Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of technology is useful for both science and technology studies and critical theory. The synthesis has political implications. It offers an argument for the rationality of democratic interventions by citizens into decisions concerning technology. The new framework opens a perspective on the radical transformation of technology required by ecological modernization and sustainability. In so doing, it suggests new applications of STS methods to…Read more
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10Do We Need a Critical Theory of Technology? Reply to Tyler VeakScience, Technology, and Human Values 25 (2): 238-242. 2000.
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8Book Review: On Bridging the Gap between Science and Technology Studies: Sandra Harding’s Is Science Multicultural? (review)Science, Technology, and Human Values 24 (4): 483-494. 1999.
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69Critical Constructivism, Postphenomenology and the Politics of TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (1-2): 27-40. 2020.Critical constructivism adds a dimension of collective action to postphenomenology. This paper explains the intervention of collective subjects into technological design. That intervention presupposes communication between lay and expert actors which is made possible by the dependence of technical disciplines on the lifeworld. Understanding the public processes of intervention requires a notion of multiple types of rationality and a social account of technological design.
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30Critical Constructivism, Postphenomenology and the Politics of TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (1-2): 27-40. 2020.Critical constructivism adds a dimension of collective action to postphenomenology. This paper explains the intervention of collective subjects into technological design. That intervention presupposes communication between lay and expert actors which is made possible by the dependence of technical disciplines on the lifeworld. Understanding the public processes of intervention requires a notion of multiple types of rationality and a social account of technological design.
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2Critical theory of technology: An overviewInformation Technology in Librarianship: New Critical Approaches 31--46. 2008.
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9MarcuseRadical Philosophy Review 21 (2): 271-298. 2018.Marcuse argues that society must be evaluated in terms of its unrealized potentialities. Potentialities are formulated by the imagination, which has an essential cognitive function in revealing what things might be. Utopian thinking, thinking that transcends the given facts toward their potentialities, is thus rational in Marcuse’s view. His explanation for this claim draws on Hegel, Marx, and phenomenology. With Freud, Marcuse elaborates the historical limits and possibilities of the imaginatio…Read more
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29MarcuseRadical Philosophy Review 21 (2): 271-298. 2018.Marcuse argues that society must be evaluated in terms of its unrealized potentialities. Potentialities are formulated by the imagination, which has an essential cognitive function in revealing what things might be. Utopian thinking, thinking that transcends the given facts toward their potentialities, is thus rational in Marcuse’s view. His explanation for this claim draws on Hegel, Marx, and phenomenology. With Freud, Marcuse elaborates the historical limits and possibilities of the imaginatio…Read more
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4Subject IndexIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 233-240. 2017.
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1Name IndexIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 231-232. 2017.
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35Technosystem: The Social Life of ReasonHarvard University Press. 2017.We live in a world of technical systems, designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by a personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization without historical precedent. It overshadows traditional democratic institutions and largely determines our way of life. Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason reconstructs the idea of democracy for this brave new world. The author draws on the tradition of radical social criticism represented by Herbert…Read more
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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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4Conclusion: The Question of ProgressIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 187-206. 2017.
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104. The Internet in QuestionIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 89-112. 2017.
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