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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Andrew Feenberg"”.
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The rhetoric of the patent wars: how technology becomes "Common Sense"
… offered by philosophers Charles Taylor and Andrew Feenberg. I apply this theoretical lens to three sets of texts: 1) public rhetoric surrounding Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility--these texts come in the form of press releases, blog posts, and tweets; 2) public rhetoric involving a …
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Concretizing Sustainable Worlds: Environmentalism as a Politics of Technological Transformation
Andrew Feenberg, a philosopher of technology, argues for a democratic rationalization of technology, whereby subjugated actors intervene in the design process to achieve their interests. He claims that environmentalism represents one of the greatest opportunities for this kind of intervention. His …
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Moral Code: The Design and Social Values of the Internet
… the thought of Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, and Andrew Feenberg, supports a social constructivist approach that includes theorization of the oppressive embodiment of hegemonic and exclusive interests in technology while rejecting the technological determinisms influenced by Martin Heidegger's …
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Technological Performativity: Mapping the Rhetoric of Student Valuation and Identity in Composition Textbooks
… that draws upon the work of Martin Heidegger and Andrew Feenberg in order to understand the nature of tools and technological systems, and it borrows from Judith Butler's theory of performativity in order to determine the possible rhetorical effects of one type of discursive tool. Heidegger and …