| Description |
xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Technology and freedom -- Democratizing Technical Change -- Underdetermination and Public Intervention -- Legitimacy and Rationality -- Value, Culture and technology -- Conclusion --- PART I. Dystopian Enlightenment. 2. MARCUSE AND THE CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGY: FROM DYSTOPIA TO INTERACTION -- Prologue: Obstinacy as a Theoretical Virtue -- The Protest Against Progress -- Rationality and Dystopia -- Radical Critique of Technological Society -- The Ontological Critique of Technology -- Interactive Strategies of Change -- 3. DYSTOPIA AND APOCALYPSE: THE EMERGENCE OF CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS -- Critique as Mass Culture -- End to History -- The Last Humanist -- The Vanishing Consensus --- PART II. Technique and Value -- 4. THE TECHNOCRACY THESIS REVISITED: ADORNO, FOUCAULT, HABERMAS -- Dialectics of Enlightenment -- The Technocracy Thesis -- From the System to the Organization -- Delegation and Consensus Formation -- The Technocratic Technical Code -- Action and Consensus Formation -- Underdetermination and Operational Autonomy -- Conclusion: The Technocracy Thesis Revisited -- 5. ON BEING A HUMAN SUBJECT: AIDS AND THE CRISIS OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE -- Cyborg Medicine -- Caring and Curing -- The Revolt Against Ethical Regulation -- Participant Interests -- The Sociotechnical Ethics of Medical Experimentation -- Science and Ethics --- PART III. Postmodern Technology -- 6. FRENCH THEORY AND POSTMODERN TECHNOLOGY: FROM LYOTARD TO THE MINITEL -- Cracking the Modern Facade -- The Crisis of Narration -- Postmodern Pragmatics -- Postmodern Technology -- Social Memory -- The Loss of the Code -- Epilogue: Anticipations of Interaction -- 7. FROM INFORMATION TO COMMUNICATION: THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE WITH VIDEOTEX -- Information or Communication? -- The Emergence of a New Medium -- The Conflict of Codes -- The Social Construction of the Minitel -- Conclusion: The Future of the Communication Society --- PART IV. Multicultural Modernity -- 8. THE PROBLEM OF MODERNITY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF NISHIDA -- The Problem of Modernity -- Experience and Science -- Dialectics of Place -- Cultural Self-Affirmation -- Greeks or Jews? -- Conclusion -- 9. ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY? PLAYING THE JAPANESE GAME OF CULTURE -- Games as Rational Systems -- The Rules of the Game -- The Way of Go: Autonomy and Reflection -- No-Mind: The Structure of Conflict -- The Pattern Disturbed -- Meta-Rules: Etiquette or Equity -- Layers of Meaning -- Aestheticism, East and West -- Cultural Genealogy --The Culture of Place -- Place and Alternative Modernity -- Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion: Culture and modernity -- The Critique of Modernity -- Hybrid Realities -- Types of Design -- From Unity to Diversity |
| Summary |
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 developed as the basis for an alternative form of modern society |
| Analysis |
Society Role of Technology |
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Society Role of Technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Democracy.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
95008666 |
| ISBN |
0520089855 |
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0520089863 |
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9780520089853 |
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9780520089860 |
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