Andrew Feenberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 167266 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Feenberg |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Feenberg |
| FIRMA | FEENBERG A |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4850-0402 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 99 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Sobre ciência e experiência, em Marcuse
Technology, culture and critical theory
Andrew Feenberg is a pioneer in the development of the philosophy of technology. Before his retirement, he was the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he also directed the Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory (ACTL). He is the author or editor of thirteen books on Critical Theory, Western Marxism, and the philosophy of technology, including Lukács, Marx, and t…
Marcuse’s critique of technology today
Marcuse was the face of the Frankfurt School during the 1960s and '70s. His eclipse led, among other unfortunate consequences, to the disappearance of his critique of science and technology. That critique is based on an experiential ontology that derives in part from Marcuse’s background in phenomenology. In this paper I trace the roots of that ontology in his early interpretation of Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. One-Dime…
Marxism and formalism
Política de Eros, de Andrew Feenberg
A proposta marcuseana de uma revolução a partir do "triunfo de Eros" passa pela sua síntese entre as teorias de Freud e de Marx. Neste artigo, Andrew Feenberg nos apresenta o freudo-marxismo de Marcuse e o debate sobre os limites da utopia marcuseana. Portanto, em um primeiro momento, Feenberg indica os motivos que levaram Marcuse a realizar tal síntese, assim como os elementos que a fundamentam; em seguida, Feenberg vai nos conduzir às principai…
En attendant l'Histoire
En 2010 la New Left Review (NLR 65) a traduit un dialogue entre Horkheimer et Adorno propos d'un nouveau manifeste 1 . Ce dialogue, qui a eu lieu en 1956, n'est comprhensible que dans le contexte de l'interprtation par Marx et par Lukacs de la relation entre thorie et pratique. Dans cette intervention, j'essaierai d'expliquer comment ce contexte empche l'criture du manifeste et rend la discussion absurde. Mais d'abord, je dirai comment Horkheimer…
Critical Constructivism, Postphenomenology and the Politics of Technology
Critical constructivism adds a dimension of collective action to postphenomenology. This paper explains the intervention of collective subjects into technological design. That intervention presupposes communication between lay and expert actors which is made possible by the dependence of technical disciplines on the lifeworld. Understanding the public processes of intervention requires a notion of multiple types of rationality and a social accoun…
Tristes techniques ? Pour une connaissance anthropologique des faits techniques. Entretien avec Andrew Feenberg
À l’inverse du naturalisme et du juridisme de la pensée habermassienne, Andrew Feenberg a renouvelé la tradition critique par un examen du réel au plus près des pratiques, attentif aux rapports de force économiques et à la plasticité des objets techniques. Ses concepts d’« intervention démocratique », de « vie sociale de la raison » et le désencastrement entre technique et capitalisme que prône sa philosophie dessinent des capacités d’agir très d…
Capacités d'agir à l'ère numérique
Dans la tradition de l'École de Francfort, le philosophe canadien soutient qu'Internet et les réseaux sociaux rendent possibles de nouveaux modes de résistance au capitalisme technologique
Digital Identities in Tension
International audience
Digital Identities in Tension
The Internet as network, world, co-construction, and mode of governance
The Internet is unlike anything else in the history of technology. It is neither a tool nor a machine, but a network. As such, it is a new type of technical system. It resembles the telephone system in some respects, but it also has similarities to broadcast networks that distribute entertainment, shopping malls that distribute goods, and transportation systems insofar as it opens new “worlds” to its users. What is more, the users of the Internet…
Entre a razão e a experiência
On Technology, Capitalism, Art and Imagination
Meike Schmidt-Gleim, Carlos Pérez López: We would like to start with a very general question about technique and technology as an object of study. In your text “Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap” (2003), you claim that technology studies are split into two opposed branches: Essentialist philosophy of technology represented, for instance, by the Heideggerian position, and empirical research on technology, for…
Technology, Modernity, and Democracy
This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. According to critical theory of technology, technologies are neither neutral nor deterministic, but are encoded with specific socio-economic values and interests. Feenberg explores how they can be develo…
Emancipation, Progress, Critique
Marcuse
Technosystem
We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel-a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg's theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change
Technosystem
Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism
This article argues that Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of technology is useful for both science and technology studies (STS) and critical theory. The synthesis has political implications. It offers an argument for the rationality of democratic interventions by citizens into decisions concerning technology. The new framework opens a perspective on the radical transformation of technology required by ecological modernization and sustainability. In …
Replies
In these replies I address criticism of my work on the grounds that I adopt a 'humanist' approach, underestimate the aesthetic potential of contemporary video games, overlook the role of the nation-state in resisting technological imperialism, fail to appreciate the risks of reactionary appropriations of technology, and introduce an extrinsic and dubious aesthetic value into the philosophy of technology. In the course of responding to these criti…
Critical theory of technology and STS
The Critical Theory of the early Frankfurt School promised, in Adorno's words, a 'rational critique of reason'. Science and Technology Studies can play a role in the renewal of this approach. STS is based on a critique of the very same technocratic and scientistic assumptions against which Critical Theory argues. Its critique of positivism and determinism has political implications. But at its origins STS took what Wiebe Bijker called the 'detour…
La réalisation de la philosophie
The Politics of Meaning
Book Symposium on The Philosophy of Simondon
The critical theory of technology∗
Critical theory of technology and STS
The Critical Theory of the early Frankfurt School promised, in Adorno's words, a 'rational critique of reason'. Science and Technology Studies can play a role in the renewal of this approach. STS is based on a critique of the very same technocratic and scientistic assumptions against which Critical Theory argues. Its critique of positivism and determinism has political implications. But at its origins STS took what Wiebe Bijker called the 'detour…
Virtual Community
Marcuse's Phenomenology
Rationalizing Play
This article constructs a new framework for the study of games as sites of social rationalization, applying Feenberg's critical theory of technology. We begin by making the case for a consideration of games as systems of social rationality, akin to other modern systems such as capitalist markets and bureaucratic organizations. We then present a conceptualization of play as a process through which the player focuses attention away from the undiffe…
Community Technology and Democratic Rationalization
The objective of this paper is to explore questions of human agency and democratic process in the technical sphere through the example of "virtual community." The formation of relatively stable long-term group associations--community in the broad sense of the term--is the scene on which a large share of human development occurs. As such it is a fundamental human value mobilizing diverse ideologies and sensitivities. The promise of realizing this …
Marcuse
The Internet as network, world, co-construction, and mode of governance
The Internet is unlike anything else in the history of technology. It is neither a tool nor a machine, but a network. As such, it is a new type of technical system. It resembles the telephone system in some respects, but it also has similarities to broadcast networks that distribute entertainment, shopping malls that distribute goods, and transportation systems insofar as it opens new “worlds” to its users. What is more, the users of the Internet…
Lukács's Theory of Reification and Contemporary Social Movements
Lukács's theory of reification, explained in his 1923 work, History and Class Consciousness, is often interpreted as a theory of ideology, but it is also a theory of social practice and a work of social ontology. Reification and dereification describe different types of social practice: individual technical practices aimed at adaptation, survival, and success, and collective transformative practices with the potential for establishing a solidary …
Will the Real Post-Human Please Stand Up
Fernando Elichirigoity has written an impassioned plea for a postmodern philosophy of technology that would go beyond the limits of my project in writing Questioning Technology.1 Elichirigoity praises my turn to constructivism and my critique of Habermas but, failing to understand post-humanist insights, I supposedly remain bound to tired old modernist prescriptions which prevent me from adequately analyzing technology in its contemporary context…
Commodity and Community in Social Networking
In the era of social media, the notion of immaterial labor or free labor can be interpreted in different ways. On the one hand, Hardt and Negri argue, immaterial labor as labor creates immaterial products. On the other hand, free labor can be understood as unpaid labor that is voluntarily given. Fuchs combines the theories of free labor and Hardt and Negri's concept of the multitude with audience commodity theory in an innovative Marxist analysis…
Phenomenology and Surveillance Studies
In response to the increasingly quotidian, even banal character of surveillant practices in postindustrial societies, this article explores the possibility of a theoretical and methodological re-alignment in surveillance studies. This re-alignment entails a move from broadly Foucauldian, macro-level, structural or poststructural analyses, to the existential–phenomenological study of subjective consciousness and experience. This piece illustrates …
Critical Theory of Communication Technology
The debate over the contribution of new communication technology to democracy is far from settled. Some point to the empowering effects of online discussion and fund-raising on recent electoral campaigns in the United States to argue that the Internet will restore the public sphere. Others claim that the Internet is just a virtual mall, a final extension of capitalist rationalization into every corner of our lives, a trend supported by an ever de…
The Ambivalence of Technology
Marx is at his most persuasive when he shows that technology is not an autonomous thing one can be for or against, but that technological design is relative to political forces which depend in turn on social interests. Thus, technology is an ambivalent dimension of the social process and, like education, law, the military, and the corporate structure, it is involved in social struggles which determine what it is and will become. This position imp…
Post-industrial discourses
Marcuse’s critique of technology today
Marcuse was the face of the Frankfurt School during the 1960s and '70s. His eclipse led, among other unfortunate consequences, to the disappearance of his critique of science and technology. That critique is based on an experiential ontology that derives in part from Marcuse’s background in phenomenology. In this paper I trace the roots of that ontology in his early interpretation of Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. One-Dime…
Emancipation, Progress, Critique
Replies
In these replies I address criticism of my work on the grounds that I adopt a 'humanist' approach, underestimate the aesthetic potential of contemporary video games, overlook the role of the nation-state in resisting technological imperialism, fail to appreciate the risks of reactionary appropriations of technology, and introduce an extrinsic and dubious aesthetic value into the philosophy of technology. In the course of responding to these criti…
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Symmetry, asymmetry, and the real possibility of radical change
A Fresh Look at Lukács
ion. According to Lukacs, when Kant demonstrates that the world of experience is rigorously determined by the laws of physics, he opens that world to unlimited technical progress while excluding in principle any role for values in its development (1968: 160-161). Transforming practice differs in that it attacks the laws themselves. It is a nontechnical practice that grasps the essence of its objects and changes them at the deepest level. The impl…
Alternative Modernity? Playing the Japanese Game of Culture
Introduction: Games as Rational Systems In 1938, the great Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata witnessed a turning point in the history of the game of Go. Kawabata was then a young reporter covering the championship Go match sponsored by his newspaper. Honnimbo Shusai, the Invincible Master, who had reigned over the world of Go for a generation, was pitted against a young challenger. So popular was Go that Kawabata's newspaper could offer the pla…
A user's guide to the pragmatics of computer mediated communication
Beyond the politics of survival
Remembering the May Events
Paul Nizan
Paul Nizan's Les chiens de garde (The Watchdogs) expresses a recurring mood of youth in the modem world. It is the mood of Turgeniev's "sons," the mood of those without excuses, of those for whom neutrality is betrayal, for whom the clean separation of culture and life is a scandal. The sons refuse the fathers' world because not to refuse it is to join it, and to join it is to embrace its consequences. The logic of rebellion begins thus.This arti…
Technocracy and Rebellion
The period from 1964 to 1968 was one of the most remarkable in recent American history. Thirty-five years of American liberalism were tried and found wanting. Opposition movements were born first on the Left, then on the Right, which were strong enough to shake established political patterns. The spread of ill humor, intolerance, and personal cruelty spoiled the last traces of freshness and innocence in the American character. The temper of a nat…
Reification and the Antinomies of Socialist Thought
The structure of the theory-practice relation in social democracy proves to be the social foundation of the various interpretations of Marxism in the Second International. The two main trends, centrist orthodoxy and revisionism, were profoundly unsatisfying to Lukács precisely because they reflected this theory-practice relation. At the theoretical level the split between theory and practice had increasingly differentiated and fragmented the orig…
Aesthetics as Social Theory
Paradoxically, the rebirth of Marxist literary criticism in the United States goes hand in hand with renewed interest in the pre-Marxist writings of Georg Lukács. The important article by Ferenc Fehér which follows should contribute significantly to this Lukács revival. But Fehér's approach presupposes a background of aesthetic and philosophical debates which are only beginning to be known in this country. These remarks should be understood as a—…
Borrowed Glory
Everyone knows the feeling. The cars ahead slow down. There is a little twinge of excitement as we wait to see what is up ahead: an accident, perhaps a truck jackknifed alongside the freeway, ambulances leaving the scene, who knows? Then we reach the crest of the wave and look right and left. In vain: there is nothing to see. We accelerate out on the other side, feeling a little guilty about regretting our disappointment. The accident is long sin…
Lukács et la critique du marxisme orthodoxe
Introduction to the Kosik-Sartre Exchange
Even the Russians are embarrassed and have lately put some pressure on their Czech minions to “liberalize” a bit. Yet, this is doubtlessly impossible for a regime which has, according to a recent poll, the support of only about 10% of its people—not to mention the hostility of the Hungarian and Polish governments and the Italian Communist Party (which is about to enter the government in Italy). It is said that the East Germans also have recently …
Idéologies
Remembering the May Events
Technology Transfer and Cultural Change in Communist Societies
Beyond the politics of survival
La nouvelle droite américaine
Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory
L'écologie
Feenberg on Lukacs
Lukács, Marx, and the sources of critical theory
Le problème de l'organisation dans les premiers ouvrages marxistes de Lukács
The Bias Of Technology
Marcuse
Marcuse
Introduction Negation and Affirmation Philosophical Origins The Aesthetic Dimension The Psychological Dimension The Political Dimension The Technological Dimension Bibliography Index
Marcuse
A user's guide to the pragmatics of computer mediated communication
Les chemins de l'échec
La Nouvelle gauche américaine a développé des formes d'action culturelle nouvelles qui lui ont permis de mettre en question le consensus socio-politique des années 50. Alors que dans sa période héroïque, la Nouvelle gauche semblait être en mesure de susciter des changements majeurs dans la société, dans les années 70 le mouvement a été victime d'un certain nombre de problèmes liés au sectarisme, qui l'ont isolé de sa base potentielle. Une analyse…
Rejoinders
The critical theory of technology∗
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