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02694aam a2200361 i 4500 001 51146706C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 170421t20172017maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017015489 020 $a 0674971787 020 $a 9780674971783 035 $a (OCoLC)981994610 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BDX $d ERASA $d HLS $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HB87 $b .F44 2017 082 00 $a 303.48/3 $2 23 100 1 $a Feenberg, Andrew, $e author. 245 10 $a Technosystem : $b the social life of reason / $c Andrew Feenberg. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xiii, 235 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a 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.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 0 $a Instroduction: Technology and human finitude -- Method: Marx after Foucault -- Critical constructivism -- Concretizing Simondon and constructivism -- Application: The internet in question -- Theory: Reason and experience in the age of the technosystem -- The concept of function in critical constructivism -- The logic of protest -- Conclusion: The question of progress. 650 0 $a Technocracy. 650 0 $a Technology $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Reason $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Constructivism (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Frankfurt school of sociology $x Influence. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107014514.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=51146706C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search