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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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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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17Online 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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40Alternative 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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60Critical 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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Aesthetics as Social Theory: Introduction to Fehér's "Is the Novel Problematic?"Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 15 (n/a): 41. 1973.
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40Modernity, Technology and the Forms of RationalityPhilosophy Compass 6 (12): 865-873. 2011.Modern societies are shaped to a significant extent by socially rational institutions, arrangements, and technologies. A purely functional understanding of these rationalized structures eliminates the element of meaning from social life. Ellul, Heidegger and the Frankfurt School focused on this impoverishment and associate it with the spread of technology. But recent technology studies offer a different perspective which can be joined to the formulation of the social critique in the writings of …Read more
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68What I Said and What I Should Have SaidTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 17 (1): 163-178. 2013.In this reply I address problems identified by my critics in my concept of formal bias, my use of phenomenology, the relation between my work and McLuhan’s media theory, and the relation of science to technology.
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Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of HistoryHuman Studies 28 (3): 335-352. 2005.
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144The ontic and the ontological in Heidegger's philosophy of technology: Response to ThomsonInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (4). 2000.Iain Thomson's critique is persuasive on several points but not on the major issue, the relation of the ontological to the ontic in Heidegger's philosophy of technology. This reply attempts to show that these two dimensions of Heidegger's theory are closely related, at least in the technological domain, and not separate, as Thomson affirms. It is argued that Heidegger's evaluations of particular technologies, the flaws of which Thomson concedes, proceed from a flawed ontological conception.
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269Experience and culture: Nishida's path "to the things themselves"Philosophy East and West 49 (1): 28-44. 1999.The word "experience" refers to at least four different concepts: empirical experience, lived experience, experience as Bildung, and the domain of pure consciousness prior to the division of subject and object. All these concepts of experience are at work in the thought of Nishida Kitarō, where they take on a specific historical and political character in response to the situation of Japan in the world system
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48Constructivism and technology critique: Replies to criticsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 43 (2). 2000.1. Thomson's critique: Despite the efforts of his followers to show that Heidegger had a progressive theory of technology, his work is clouded by nostalgia. His positive contribution is a fragmentary opening toward a phenomenology of daily technical practice, which I use to develop de Certeau's distinction between the strategic control of technical systems and their tactical usage by subordinates. Heidegger himself made no such application of his own phenomenological approach. 2. Stump's critiqu…Read more
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21Radical 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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