Resistance Is Futile: Toward a Non-Modern Democratization of Technology

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    Abstract

    Andrew Feenberg’s political philosophy of technology uniquely connects the neo-Marxist tradition with phenomenological approaches to technology. This paper investigates how this connection shapes Feenberg’s analysis of power. Influenced by De Certeau and by classical positions in philosophy of technology, Feenberg focuses on a dialectical model of oppression versus liberation. A hermeneutic reading of power, though, inspired by the late Foucault, does not conceptualize power relations as external threats, but rather as the networks of relations in which subjects are constituted. Such a hermeneutic approach replaces De Certeau’s tactics of resistance with a critical and creative accompaniment of technological developments
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)72-92
    JournalTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
    Volume17
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Keywords

    • METIS-299401
    • IR-88124
    • Dialectics
    • Hermeneutics
    • Power
    • Political philosophy of technology
    • Mediation theory

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