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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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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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34Alternative 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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5Borrowed Glory: "The Sugarland Express"Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1974 (21): 188-194. 1974.
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Technological rationality and the problem of meaningIn Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi & G. Agostini Saavedra (eds.), Nostalgia for a Redeemed Future: Critical Theory, University of Delaware. 2009.
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73Lukács, Marx, and the sources of critical theoryOxford University Press. 1981.This acclaimed book is the first comparative evaluation of two primary sources of the Western Marxist tradition: Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and History and Class Consciousness by Georg Luk'acs. Andrew Feenberg offers a new interpretation of the theories of alienation and reification as the basis of a Marxist approach to the cultural contradictions of contemporary society.
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2The critical theory of technologyIn Craig Hanks (ed.), Technology and values: essential readings, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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Heidegger and Marcuse : The catastrophe and redemption of technologyIn John Abromeit & W. Mark Cobb (eds.), Herbert Marcuse: a critical reader, Routledge. 2004.First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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46Symmetry, asymmetry, and the real possibility of radical change: reply to KochanStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (4): 721-727. 2006.In his critique of my book Heidegger and Marcuse, Jeff Kochan (2006) asserts that I am committed to the possibility of private knowledge, transcendent truths, and individualism. In this reply I argue that he has misinterpreted my analysis of the Challenger disaster and Marcuse’s work. Because I do not dismiss Roger Boisjoly’s doubts about the Challenger launch, Kochan believes that I have abandoned a social concept of knowledge for a reliance on the private knowledge of a single individual. In f…Read more
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