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Author Veak, Tyler J
Title Democratizing Technology : Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology
Imprint Ithaca : State University of New York Press, 2006
©2006
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Descript 1 online resource (253 pages)
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Note Intro -- Democratizing Technology -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. Theoretical Assumptions of a Critical Theory of Technology -- 1. Rethinking Modernity as the Construction of Technological Systems -- 2. The Posthuman Challenge to Andrew Feenberg -- 3. An Ecofeminist Response -- 4. What's Wrong with Being a Technological Essentialist? A Response to Feenberg -- 5. From Critical Theory to Pragmatism: Feenberg's Progress -- PART 2. The Politics of Technological Transformation -- 6. Democracy and Technology -- 7. Feenberg and the Reform of Technology -- 8. Commodification and Secondary Rationalization -- 9. Democratic Technology, Population, and Environmental Change -- 10. Technological Malleability and the Social Reconstruction of Technologies -- Replies to Critics -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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Link Print version: Veak, Tyler J. Democratizing Technology : Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology Ithaca : State University of New York Press,c2006 9780791469170
Subject Technology -- Social aspects.;Critical theory
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