Veak Democratizing Technology

Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8096-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

The first volume to critically engage the work of Andrew Feenberg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Veak, Tyler J.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART 1: THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS OF A CRITICAL THEORY OF TECHNOLOGY

1. Rethinking Modernity as the Construction of Technological Systems
David J. Stump

2. The Posthuman Challenge to Andrew Feenberg
Simon Cooper

3. An Ecofeminist Response
Trish Glazebrook

4. What’s Wrong with Being a Technological Essentialist? A Response to Feenberg
Iain Thomson

5. From Critical Theory to Pragmatism: Feenberg’s Progress
Larry A. Hickman

PART 2: THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION

6. Democracy and Technology
Gerald Doppelt

7. Feenberg and the Reform of Technology
Albert Borgmann

8. Commodification and Secondary Rationalization
Paul B. Thompson

9. Democratic Technology, Population, and Environmental Change
Andrew Light

10. Technological Malleability and the Social Reconstruction of Technologies
Edward J. Woodhouse

Replies to Critics
Andrew Feenberg

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tyler J. Veak is an Instruction Librarian at Liberty University. He received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech.