دانلود کتاب The Necessity of Critique: Andrew Feenberg and the Philosophy of Technology

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Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Necessity (and Spirit) of Critique in Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy of Technology
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Democratic Potentials
1.3 Trajectories of Contemporary Critique
1.4 Critical Theories of Technology
1.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Critical Constructivism: An Exposition and Defense
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Why Marx?
2.3 Technology and Political Theory
2.4 Operational Autonomy
2.5 Democratization
2.6 Formal Bias
2.7 Instrumentalization Theory
2.8 Consequences
Bibliography
Part I: Democratic Potentials
Chapter 3: The Critical Theory of the Common Good, Technology, and the Corona Tracking App
3.1 Theory
3.2 Critical Theory
3.3 Critical Theory of Technology
References
Chapter 4: Andrew Feenberg and the Distorted Democratization of Technology: Covid-19 and the Case of Hydroxychloroquine
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Technological Democratization
4.3 Case Study: HIV/AIDS
4.4 Hydroxychloroquine
4.5 Disinformation and Political Polarization
4.6 Scientific and Technological Opacity
4.7 Reified Economic Structures
4.8 Ossified Internet Space
4.9 Ways Forward and Concluding Thoughts
References
Chapter 5: Beyond the Design Code: Critical Design and Democratic Rationalizations
5.1 A Missed Encounter
5.2 The Design Code
5.3 What Designers Do
5.4 (co)Design
5.5 (re)Design
5.6 (un)Design
5.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Who Controls the Smart City? From Machines of Loving Grace to a Democratic Transformation from Below
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Choice Architectures
6.3 Democratic Legitimacy
6.4 Technological Rationality
6.5 Opening the Smart City
References
Part II: Trajectories of Contemporary Critique
Chapter 7: Critical (Big) Data Studies
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Terms and Debates: Big Data and Critical Theory
7.3 Myth 1: Data are Given
7.4 Myth 2: Data as Resource
7.5 Myth 3: Data Speak for Themselves
7.6 Myth 4: Everything Is Already Digital
7.7 Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
References
Chapter 8: The Behavioral Code: Recommender Systems and the Technical Code of Behaviorism
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The History and Study of Recommenders
8.3 Technical Code and Formal Bias
8.4 Inside Recommenders
8.4.1 Behavioral and Environmental Data
8.5 The Technical Code of Recommenders
8.5.1 Behaviorism: The Core Principles
8.5.2 The Behavioral Code
8.6 The Formal Bias of Recommenders: Critiques of Behaviorism
8.6.1 Existing Critiques of Behaviorism
8.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: The Algorithmic Thing, The Real, and Contestation: Tracing the Fringes of Critical Constructivism
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Discovery of Problems
9.3 The Algorithmic Thing
9.4 Critical Constructivism Needs Breakdown
9.5 OOO’s Ubiquitous Breakdown
9.6 Critical Constructivism’s Object
9.7 The Algorithmic Thing’s Essence, and the Epistemological Question
References
Part III: Critical Theories of Technology
Chapter 10: Beyond Efficiency: Comparing Andrew Feenberg’s and Byung-Chul Han’s Philosophy of Technology
10.1 Introduction
10.2 A Different Understanding of Modernity
10.3 Beyond Efficiency
10.4 Is the Internet Bad?
10.5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 11: The Varieties of Praxis: Marx, Lukács, Feenberg, and Czechoslovak Marxism
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Marxism Between West and East
11.3 Making Sense of Spontaneity
11.4 Czechoslovak Marxism: The Quest for a Philosophy of Praxis
11.5 Marxist Humanism Meets Existential Phenomenology
11.6 Praxis as Onto-Creativity
11.7 The Pitfalls of Heideggerian Marxism
11.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: What Place for Nature Within the Critique of Technology?
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Evolutionism as a Technological Tool
12.3 Tension Between Technological Analysis and Historical Discourse in the Work of Leroi-Gourhan
12.4 Differences Between Technical Nature and Utility
12.5 Simondonian Concepts: Genesis and Concretization
12.6 Concretization as Criterion of Technical Progress
12.7 The Part Played by Invention
12.8 Evaluations of Technologies Through Simondon
12.9 Vital Normativity, a Way to Join Nature and Culture
References
Chapter 13: Is Critical Constructivism Critical Enough? Towards an Agonistic Philosophy of Technology
13.1 Introduction
13.2 The Philosophy of Technology Beyond the Empirical and Ethical Turn
13.3 A Critique of Critical Constructivism
13.4 Philosophy of Technology: An Agonistic Approach
13.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 14: Geschichtlichkeit, Life, and Technicity: From Heideggerian Marxism to the Critical Theory of Technology
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Geschichtlichkeit
14.3 Dialectics of Life
14.4 The Technological Shift
14.5 Technicity Between Life and Historicity
14.6 The Reform of Objectivity Through Technicity
References
Index