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Technical Politics - Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology (Hardcover)
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Technical Politics - Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology (Hardcover)
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Technology often plays an ambiguous role in theories of social
change. Viewed by Karl Marx as the driving force of historical
progress, it has come to be associated with exploitation and
alienation, thanks in large part to the work of Frankfurt School
critical theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
Andrew Feenberg is an unusual figure: a critical theorist with an
essentially optimistic view of technology. His concept of
'technical politics' puts technology design at the heart of
disputes over the future shape of society. This book provides the
first sustained critique of Feenberg's work, describing how it has
developed from the tradition of Marx and Marcuse and analysing the
key ideas of formal bias, ambivalence, progressive rationalisation
and primary and secondary instrumentalisation. Identifying the
limitations resulting from Feenberg's attachment to critique, the
book offers a utopian corrective that can provide a fuller account
of the process of willed technological transformation and of the
author's own idea of a technologically authorised socialism. -- .
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