By Andrew Feenberg
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In this advent to the learn of the philosophy and politics of expertise, Andrew Feenberg argues that expertise is way extra embedded and valuable to our social and political buildings than we understand. We see that the increase and strengthen of knowledge know-how bills for applied sciences eventually an important social and political place.
Feenberg indicates us that expertise is the medium of lifestyle in smooth societies. each significant technical swap reverberates at numerous degrees: financial, political, spiritual and cultural. If we proceed to determine technical and social domain names as being separate, then we're basically averting and denying an essential component of our lifestyles, and our position in a democratic society.
Questioning Technology seeks to persuade us that it is necessary that we examine extra approximately know-how the higher to dwell with it and deal with it.
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