Complexity, Masculinity, and Critical Theory
Revisiting Marcuse on Technology, Eros, and Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2370022 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Garlick (0000-0001-5283-3301, University of Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-238 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0896920511421032 |
| OpenAlex | W2324969839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article takes as its starting point Christian Fuchs's Internet and Society (2008), which deploys selected aspects of Herbert Marcuse's work in the construction of a critical theory of techno-social systems and informational capitalism. Going beyond Fuchs's emphasis on dialectics, I argue for a deeper engagement with Marcuse's distinctive combination of Marxian, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological theory in order to formulate a theoretical framework that includes embodied aspects of techno-social experiences. By reinterpreting the concepts of nature and Eros in Marcuse's critical theory in terms of complexity and self-organization, I suggest that his work can inform a renewal of critical theories of technology at a time when boundaries between the natural and social worlds are increasingly contested. At the same time, I argue that Marcuse's critique of technological rationality has a significant gendered dimension that is relevant to understanding how the complexity of nature gets taken up within contemporary techno-social systems
Capitalism · Critical theory · Dialectic · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Rationality · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Counterrevolution and revolt.
Nature's body
Manhood in America
Marcuse's Challenge to Education
How We Became Posthuman
Feminism Confronts Technology
Men as Managers, Managers as Men
Civilization and Its Discontents
Herbert Marcuse and contemporary social theory
On Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
Qualitative Complexity
Marcuse's Challenge to Education
Globalization and Inequalities
The Logic of Practice
Autopoiesis and Cognition
Gendered Rationality? A Genealogical Exploration of the Philosophical and Sociological Conceptions of Rationality, Masculinity and Organization
Marcuse Remade? Theory and Explanation in Hardt and Negri
The Nick of Time
Parables for the Virtual
Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Reconsidering Herbert Marcuse's Critical Theory of Technology
Complexity and post-modernism
Marxism and Feminism
The Politics of Science and Sustainable Development
Considering Complexity
Taking Control of Sex
Love and Revolution
Welcome to the Men's Club
The Complexity Turn
Complexity and Life
Hegel and Critical Social Theory
Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |