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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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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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119Review 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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175Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1995."This fine collection of essays from a diverse group of authors expounding on a wide variety of subjects presents a generous sampling of the new philosophy of technology." —Choice "... informative, original, and provocative.... Many of the writers are major players in defining the contested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies as well as critical theory and Heidegger studies." —Gerald Doppelt
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606From 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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10Civilizational Politics and Dissenting IndividualsRadical Philosophy Review 2 (2): 152-160. 1999.
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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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185Marcuse 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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71The 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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69Democratizing technology: Interests, codes, rights (review)The Journal of Ethics 5 (2): 177-195. 2001.This reply to criticism of Questioning Technology by Gerald Doppeltaddresses differences between political philosophy and philosophy oftechnology. While political philosophers such as Doppelt emphasize procedural aspects of democracy and equal rights, many philosophers of technologyimplicitly assume a substantive criterion of the good centered on thedevelopment of human capacities. Questioning Technology alsoemphasizes the diminishing agency of individuals in technologically advanced societies d…Read more
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55Radical Philosophy of TechnologyRadical Philosophy Review 12 (1-2): 199-217. 2009.The most effective way to silence criticism is a justification on the very terms of the likely critique. When an action is rationally justified, how can reason deny its legitimacy? This paper concerns critical strategies that have been employed for addressing the resistance of rationality to rational critique especially with respectto technology. Foucault addressed this problem in his theory of power/knowledge. This paper explores Marx’s anticipation of that approach in his critique of the “soci…Read more
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45Chapter 12: A Neo-Marxist CritiqueTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 10 (2): 112-122. 2006.
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72Pragmatism and Critical Theory of TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 7 (1): 29-33. 2003.
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46‘Ed Tech in Reverse’: Information technologies and the cognitive revolutionEducational Philosophy and Theory 39 (7). 2007.As we rapidly approach the 50th year of the much‐celebrated ‘cognitive revolution’, it is worth reflecting on its widespread impact on individual disciplines and areas of multidisciplinary endeavour. Of specific concern in this paper is the example of the influence of cognitivism's equation of mind and computer in education. Within education, this paper focuses on a particular area of concern to which both mind and computer are simultaneously central: educational technology. It examines the prof…Read more
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30The Politics of MeaningRadical Philosophy Review 19 (1): 85-110. 2016.In One-Dimensional Man, Marcuse synthesized a wide range of ideas from the early Lukács, Husserl, Heidegger, and his colleagues, Horkheimer and Adorno. This synthesis is the culmination of the tradition of radical modernity critique that rose to prominence in the 1960s, providing the ideological basis for the New Left and its successor movements such as feminism and environmentalism. I develop an approach to this tradition in terms of the relation of function to meaning as it is reflected in the…Read more
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