Technosystem : The Social Life of Reason / Andrew Feenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feenberg, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technocracy.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Reason--Social aspects.

Reason.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

Frankfurt school of sociology--Influence.

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

We live in a world of technical systems, designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by a personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization without historical precedent. It overshadows traditional democratic institutions and largely determines our way of life. Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason reconstructs the idea of democracy for this brave new world. The author draws on the tradition of radical social criticism represented by Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School as well as contemporary Science and Technology Studies (STS). The social critics recognized the role of instrumental rationality in modern societies, but they did not analyze any actual technologies in detail, nor did they develop a convincing theory of democratic resistance to the new forms of domination by rational systems. STS has developed methods of analysis for a fine-grained study of technology. Technosystem brings these methods to bear on the resistances emerging in the world described by the radical social critics of the Frankfurt School.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Technology and Human Finitude

Method

1. Marx after Foucault

2. Critical Constructivism

3. Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism

Application

4. The Internet in Question

Theory

5. Reason and Experience in the Age of the Technosystem

6. The Concept of Function in Critical Constructivism

7. The Logic of Protest

Conclusion: The Question of Progress

Notes

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

9780674982116

0674982118

9780674982109

067498210X

OCLC:

1054880614