Chapter 55 ~ “Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Freedom” by Andrew Feenberg (revised – 1992) Reading chapter 55 was like reading a Who’s Who in the Philosophy of Technology. Many gues… more →
Shon in TCR Landwrote 1 month ago: Before Jacques Derrida died, he used to teach a yearly seminar for grad students at New York Univers … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Chapter 55 ~ “Democratic Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Freedom” by Andrew Feenberg (revise … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Chapter 37 ~ “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twen … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 35 ~ “The New Forms of Control” by Herbert Marcuse (1964) “A comfortable, … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 34 ~ “Do Machines Make History?” by Robert L. Heilbroner (1967) Heilbroner … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 54 ~ “Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals, with the Author’s 2000 Perspe … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 53 ~ “The Social Impact of Technological Change” by Emmanuel G. Mesthene (1967) … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 52 ~ “Anti Anticonstructivism or Laying the Fears of Langdon Winner to Rest” by Mark Elam, w … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 51 ~ “Luddism as Epistemology” by Langdon Winner (1977) Winner begins his piece with a brief … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 50 ~ “Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto” by Chellis Glendinning (1990) Though … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 49 ~ “Panopticism” by Michel Foucault (1978) Foucault begins with a discussion a … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 48 ~ “Anonymity versus Commitment: The Dangers of Education on the Internet” by … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 47 ~ “Information and Reality at the Turn of the Century” by Albert Borgmann (19 … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 46 ~ “Hacking Away at the Counterculture” by Andrew Ross (1991) Ross starts his … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 45 ~ “Heidegger and McLuhan and The Essence of Virtual Reality” by Michael H. He … more →
wrote 3 months ago: In her essay, Arendt argues for a three-part division of human activities: labor, work, and action, … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 44 ~ “Technical Progress and the Social Life-World” by Jürgen Habermas From Jürgen Habermas, … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 42~ “Three Ways of Being-With Technology” by Carl Mitcham From “From Artifact to Habitat: St … more →
wrote 4 months ago: From “Philosophy of Technology” (1989) This work of Hickman’s focuses on John Dewe … more →