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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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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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17Explains Marcuse's philosophy, especially his critique of science and technology.
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16Section 2. Boundary DisagreementsTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 24 (4): 9-28. 2020.
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16Alternative Modernity: The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social TheoryUniversity of California Press. 1995.In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. He calls into question the anti-technological stance commonly associated with its theoretical legacy and argues that technology contains potentialities that could be devel…Read more
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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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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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13Beyond the HypeFoundations of Science 22 (2): 381-383. 2017.In this reply I discuss Ellen Rose’s observations on online education as she has practiced it and Evan Selinger’s concerns about the introduction of big data in the university. Both authors are in agreement that neo-liberalism is restructuring the university, but add new considerations to the argument.
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13Lukács'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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12La réalisation de la philosophie : Marx, Lukács et l'École de FrancfortPhilosophie 133 (2): 52-67. 2017.
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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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11Introduction to the Kosik-Sartre ExchangeTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1975 (25): 192-193. 1975.
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11Critical 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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10Civilizational Politics and Dissenting IndividualsRadical Philosophy Review 2 (2): 152-160. 1999.
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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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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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9A 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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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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8A user’s guide to the pragmatics of computer mediated communicationSemiotica 75 (3-4): 257-278. 1989.
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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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7Marxism and formalism: On Ian Angus’s Groundwork of Phenomenological MarxismThesis Eleven 176 (1): 101-109. 2023.
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72. Critical ConstructivismIn Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason, Harvard University Press. pp. 38-65. 2017.
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