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65. Reason and Experience in the Age of the TechnosystemIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 115-134. 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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51. Marx after FoucaultIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 17-37. 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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36Alternative 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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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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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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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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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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11Introduction to the Kosik-Sartre ExchangeTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1975 (25): 192-193. 1975.
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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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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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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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