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Most essentialist philosophy of technology is crit-ical of modernity, even anti-modern, while most empirical research on tech-nologies ignores the larger issue of modernity and thus appears uncritical, even conformist, to social critics (Feenberg 2003).
- critical theory of technology - Simon Fraser University
The stage is set for a struggle for and against technology....
- critical theory of technology - Simon Fraser University
Mar 24, 2021 · A central concern for a critical theory of contemporary technology is both to understand how the subject’s form of rationality is impacted by technology and how the subject needs to develop new cognitive capacities to survive and engage critically with the emergent capitalist hyperreality.
- Gerard Delanty, Neal Harris
- 2021
The stage is set for a struggle for and against technology. The Critical Theory of Technology rejects this alternative and argues that the real issue is not technology or progress per se but the variety of possible technologies and paths of progress among which we must choose.
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- Andrew Feenberg
- 18
- 1991
May 17, 2023 · I worked this out in the first book on technology that I wrote in the 1980s, Critical Theory of Technology. There’s a chapter in which I try and imagine what a transitional regime would look like and how it would change opportunities and incentives for personal and technical development.
Jan 1, 2005 · Critical theory of technology combines insights from philosophy of tech-nology and constructivist technology studies.
Mar 24, 2021 · Through a reconstruction and engagement with some of the core concepts of first-generation critical theory, as well as the work of Bernard Stiegler and Andrew Feenberg, we can arrive at a more...
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The belief that Western science and technology are universal gives rise to problems when they are taken as absolute. The product of Western crafts are taken to the East, and sure enough, they work for certain things very well, and so people adopt them, even though they may clash with their culture.
