No escape from the technosystem?. (July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Susen, Simon
• Is Part Of: Philosophy & social criticism. Volume 46:Number 6(2020)
• Page Start: 734
• Page End: 782
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Subjects: Andrew Feenberg -- critical constructivism -- critical theory -- function -- progress -- rationality -- reason -- social life -- technology -- technosystem; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; 300.1
• DOI: 10.1177/0191453719866239
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0191-4537

Abstract

The main purpose of this article is to provide an in-depth review of Andrew Feenberg's Technosystem: The Social Life of Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017). To this end, the analysis is divided into two parts. The first part gives an overview of its thematic structure and elucidates its key arguments. The second part discusses its most controversial aspects and grapples with its principal weaknesses and limitations. By way of conclusion, the article argues that Feenberg's book demonstrates the pivotal role that the technosystem plays in shaping contemporary society.