El concepto de “Intervenciones democráticas” en la obra de Andrew Feenberg

Authors

  • Carolina Inés Araujo Universidad Nacional de Tucumán

Keywords:

democratic interventions, operational autonomy, margin of maneuver

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the concept of democratic interventions related to operational autonomy and margin of maneuver, in the writings of the contemporary philosopher of technology, Andrew Feenberg. First, I consider the analysis of Feenberg in reference to the treatment of patients with ALS in contrast to patients with AIDS. Then, I explain the connection between these concepts and the processes of technical transformation and technological democratization within the framework of the Critical Theory of Technology (CTT). After contextualizing the general proposal of the CTT, I describe the distinction of types of democratic interventions of technology and Feenberg’s appropriation of De Certeau’s ideas of strategy and tactics to formulate the notions of operational autonomy and margin of maneuver. In this article, I propose to clarify the articulation between these concepts in order to explain a specific condition of democratic interventions and, likewise, to propose the hierarchy of these democratic interventions.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Feenberg, Andrew (1991), Critical theory of technology, Nueva York, Oxford University Press.

----- (1995), Alternative modernity: The technical turn in philosophy and social theory, Berkeley, University of California Press.

----- (1999), Questioning technology, Londres, Routledge.

----- (2010), Between reason and experience. Essays in technology and modernity, Cambridge, MIT Press.

----- (2012), Transformar la tecnología. Una nueva visita a la teoría crítica, Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes [traducción de Fernando Tula Molina y Gustavo Giuliano].

----- (2017), Technosystem: The social life of reason, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

Feenberg, Andrew y Friesen, Norm (eds.) (2012), (Re) inventing the Internet. Critical case studies, Róterdam, Sense Publishers.

Parsons, Talcott (1951), The social system, Glencoe, The Free Press.

Barnes, Barry (1974), Scientific knowledge and sociological theory, Londres, Routledge.

Beira, Eduardo y Feenberg, Andrew (2018), Technology, modernity and democracy. Essays by Andrew Feenberg, Nueva York, Rowman & Littlefield International.

Bijker, Wiebe et al. (1993), The social construction of technological systems. New directions in the sociology and history of technology, Cambridge, MIT Press.

Bloor, David (1991), Knowledge and social imagery, Chicago, Chicago University Press.

De Certeau, Michel (2010), La invención de lo cotidiano, México D.F., Universidad Iberoamericana.

Doppelt, Gerald (2006), “Democracy and technology”, en Veak, Tyler (ed.), Democratizing technology. Andrew Feenberg’s Critical Theory of Technology, Nueva York, New York University Press, pp. 85-100.

Woolgar, Steve (1991), Ciencia: abriendo la caja negra, Barcelona, Anthropos.

How to Cite

Araujo, C. I. . (2022). El concepto de “Intervenciones democráticas” en la obra de Andrew Feenberg. Cuadernos Del Sur Filosofía, (49), 65–82. Retrieved from https://ojs.uns.edu.ar/csf/article/view/3768

Issue

Section

Dossier