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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.
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Dec 12, 2023 · “Critical theory” refers to a family of theories that aim at a critique and transformation of society by integrating normative perspectives with empirically informed analysis of society’s conflicts, contradictions, and tendencies.
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).
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- Andrew Feenberg
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The second option characterizes the critical theory of technology, which charts a difficult course between resignation and utopia. This theory analyzes the new forms of oppression associated with modern industrialism, and argues that they are subject to new challenges.
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- Andrew Feenberg
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Jan 1, 2013 · Critical theory of technology. January 2013. DOI: 10.4135/9781446282229.n9. Authors: S.M. Grimes. Andrew Feenberg. Simon Fraser University. Citations (373) References (54) Abstract. Research...
Jan 1, 2005 · Critical theory of technology combines insights from philosophy of tech-nology and constructivist technology studies.
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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...