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104Critical theory of technologyOxford University Press. 1991.Modern technology is more than a neutral tool: it is the framework of our civilization and shapes our way of life. Social critics claim that we must choose between this way of life and human values. Critical Theory of Technology challenges that pessimistic cliche. This pathbreaking book argues that the roots of the degradation of labor, education, and the environment lie not in technology per se but in the cultural values embodied in its design. Rejecting such popular solutions as economic simpl…Read more
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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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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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135The 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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263Experience 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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5Borrowed Glory: "The Sugarland Express"Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1974 (21): 188-194. 1974.
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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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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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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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2The critical theory of technologyIn Craig Hanks (ed.), Technology and values: essential readings, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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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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Reification and the Antinomies of Socialist ThoughtTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 10 (n/a): 93. 1971.
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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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New Grounds for Revolution, The Early Marx in a Lukácsian PerspectivePhilosophical Forum 8 (2): 186. 1976.
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What is the philosophy of technology?In John R. Dakers (ed.), Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, Palgrave-macmillan. 2006.
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11Introduction to the Kosik-Sartre ExchangeTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1975 (25): 192-193. 1975.
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