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These essays argue that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. The book demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. In addition, it calls into question the anti-technological stance commonly associated with its theoretical legacy and argues that technology contains potentialities that could be developed as the basis for an alternative form of modern society. The book's critical reflections on the ideas of Jurgen Habermas, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Kitaro Nishida aim to shed light upon the philosophical study of technology and modernity. The text contests the prevalent conception of technology as an unstoppable force responsive only to its own internal dynamics and politicizes the discussion of its social and cultural construction. Throughout, the argument is substantiated in a series of case studies.

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Andrew Feenberg is Canada Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Questioning Technology (1999) and Transforming Technology (2002).

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