Democratic Potentialities and Toxic Actualities: Feenberg, Ihde, Arendt, and the Internet.
In this paper I argue that while Feenberg's critical constructivism can help us to see the political potential of technologies, it cannot help us to understand the political actuality of technologies without the help of postphenomenology. In part 2, I examine Feenberg's attempt to merge Frankfurt Sc...
| Publicado en: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 24; no. 1/2; pp. 178 - 195 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=143606180&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 143606180 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01617249 2Y0N jtl: Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology issn: 01617249 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2020 vid: 24 iid: 1/2 pid: 2411 pub: Philosophy Documentation Center artinfo: ui: 143606180 10.5840/techne2020214119 ppf: 178 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 636KB tig: atl: Democratic Potentialities and Toxic Actualities: Feenberg, Ihde, Arendt, and the Internet. aug: au: Gertz, Nolen affil: Philosophy Department, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands su: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Internet Constructivism (Philosophy) Critical theory sug: subj: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 Internet Constructivism (Philosophy) Critical theory keyword: critical constructivism democracy Hannah Arendt individualism mediation theory postphenomenology the Internet trolling ab: In this paper I argue that while Feenberg's critical constructivism can help us to see the political potential of technologies, it cannot help us to understand the political actuality of technologies without the help of postphenomenology. In part 2, I examine Feenberg's attempt to merge Frankfurt School critical theory and SCOT into "critical constructivism." In part 3, I focus on Feenberg's analyses of the internet in order to highlight a blind spot in critical constructivism when it comes to threats to democracy that come from out of the demos itself. In part 4, I show how critical constructivism would benefit from adopting the theory of technological mediation found in postphenomenology by presenting a postphenomenological investigation of trolling and other forms of destructive behavior unaccounted for by Feenberg's investigation of the internet. In part 5, I conclude by turning to the work of Hannah Arendt in order to show why, just as critical constructivism could benefit from becoming more postphenomenological, postphenomenology could benefit from becoming more critical. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology is the property of Philosophy Documentation Center and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology holder: Philosophy Documentation Center dt: @attributes: year: 2020 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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