The Developing Process of Technological Rationality and Its Humanistic Relation

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Jianjun Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Technological Rationality

scholarly journals O FETICHE DA MERCADORIA-CIÊNCIA, O CIENTISTA COMO MERCADORIA E A DOMINAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
Valdemir Pereira de Queiroz Neto ◽  
Maria de Fátima Vieira Severiano
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Values In Science ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Technological Rationality ◽  
Educational Formation

This article has the objective of promoting reflections on the Technological Rationality and its implications to the production of science and the educational formation of scientists. With support on the theoretical reference of the Frankfurt School and other thinkers of the issue of technique and science, a critic is addressed to the existing disequilibrium between technical and humanitarian progress, denouncing the need of a redirection of scientific propositions to human needs and to the combat of the ever-increasing social inequality. Methodologically, this article is constituted of a theoretical discussion about the matter of the use of science as an instrument capable of enhancing the dominations directed to individuals, both scientists and consumers of science products. The findings reinforce the importance of the recovery of social and political values in science to the construction of a fairer and more balanced society.

scholarly journals ‘Other Spaces’: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 547-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Craven
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Technological Rationality ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract In this article, I seek to develop the argument that the law of outer space, as it was to be developed during the 1960s and 1970s, configured outer space as a ‘commons’ in order to displace two prevailing ‘dystopic’ socio-technical imaginaries that were to be associated with the Cold War. One of these was that outer space might become a place of warfare – and, more specifically, a warfare of annihilatory proportions between the two main protagonists of the Cold War; the other, that it might be the object of ‘primitive accumulation’. Drawing upon the work of Herbert Marcuse, I argue that, whilst the nascent code of outer space visibly sought to repress both of these possibilities, it did so by bringing into play a particular ‘technological rationality’, in which each of these aversions were to reappear as sustaining configurations – as what might be called the rational irrationalities of a Cold War commons.

Technological Rationality: Notes on “Work and Freedom in Marcuse and Marx”

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-400
Author(s):  
William Leiss
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Technological Rationality

Mr Andrew has chosen an important topic for discussion, one which embraces some of the most significant theoretical and practical issues in contemporary society (both capitalist and socialist). His article is concerned with the concept of technological rationality, considered in the light of the attitudes of Marx and Marcuse towards the nature of work. He lists a series of points on which their attitudes differ and claims that “These differences may be seen to derive from a single source, namely, that Marx was not an adherent of technological rationality and Marcuse is.” In what follows I would like to comment briefly on his argument and to indicate the results of some other recent contributions to this discussion.

A Reply to William Leiss, “Technological Rationality: Notes on ‘Work and Freedom in Marcuse and Marx’”

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-404
Author(s):  
Edward Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Technological Rationality

Mr Leiss has taken exception to my contention that Marcuse espouses the doctrine of technological rationality whereas Marx does not. He asserts that a re-examination of the original sources will not support such a classification. Since Mr Leiss does not. provide any sources or reasons to indicate why he disagrees with my assertion that Marx was not an adherent of technological rationality, I shall briefly recapitulate the reasons for my assertion and then pass on to his primary concern, namely, that I failed to support my view that Marcuse believes technological progress towards automation is the embodiment of reason in history.

scholarly journals A Critical Examination of Geoengineering: Economic and Technological Rationality in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Gunderson ◽  
Brian Petersen ◽  
Diana Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Technological Rationality

The other U.S. Border? Techno-cultural-rationalities and fortification in Southern Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 948-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margath Walker
Keyword(s):  
Border Security ◽  
The Other ◽  
Southern Mexico ◽  
Local Modes ◽  
Technological Rationality ◽  
Southern Border ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Modes Of Engagement ◽  
Insight Into

This article proposes the concept of techno-cultural-rationalities to understand how border security is enacted and “technified” along the historically porous boundary between Mexico and Guatemala. Drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s description of how the technological apparatus transforms what is considered rational in a society, I examine how technology seeks to neutralize politics and instill rigid classifications on fluid and politicized realities in Mexico’s Southern Border Program ( Programa Frontera Sur). The effect of discursive maneuvers related to the Program leave the causes and conditions of migration aside and the victors of border fortification unremarked upon. The policy’s goals are partially and ambiguously accomplished amidst an array of practices, actors, objects, desires, and discourses mediated by and through the particularities of place, which circumscribe and define technological uses. In taking seriously the emergence of situated practices, which are themselves reconfigured by diverse political contexts, I make two inter-related arguments. The first is that technological rationality operates by administering scarcity through the production of finite securities contingent upon the renewal of spatial hierarchies. The second is that informality and transgression serve as idiomatic modes of governance. Provincializing Marcuse or, directing his work to place-based practices and trans-local modes of engagement, through the analytic of techno-cultural-rationalities buttresses the applicability of such an important thinker and provides critical insight into the reproduction of border regimes across different places.

scholarly journals SUBJECTIVITY TOWARDS EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND THREATS OF CONTEMPORARY TIMES: EXCEPTIONS OF REFLECTION

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Mirosław Kowalski ◽  
Ewa Kowalska
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Rationality

Subjectivity today is commonly referred to as a necessary condition of education. Regardless of the world-view option, of social, or religious doctrine which determines the ideological layer of the education, the problem of the subjectivity is functioning as the crucial element of the design and implementation of the educational activities. At least in individual presentations it is differently understood, nobody is already contradicting its being. With reference to the introduction – what is the subjectivity? Modern ideas of education suffer from lack of the paradigmatic continuity, they commit the sin of inconsistency. Apart from the philosophical perspective of anthropology, they do not define their subjects. They constitute themselves as a methodical concept: they grow out of the technological rationality and they cross out a model of communicational rationality. The growth of educational praxeology knowledge actualises itself in isolation from the basic consideration. Inconsistency and ambiguity of ontological assumptions replaced with the indications on epistemology multiplies axiological dilemmas.

Technology and the Way: Buber, Heidegger, and Lao-Zhuang “Daoism”

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
Eric S. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
German Philosophy ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Spiritual World ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Rationality ◽  
The Way

I consider the intertextuality between Chinese and Western thought by exploring how images, metaphors, and ideas from the texts associated with Zhuangzi and Laozi were appropriated in early twentieth-century German philosophy. This interest in “Lao- Zhuang Daoism” encompasses a diverse range of thinkers including Buber and Heidegger. I examine (1) how the problematization of utility, usefulness, and “purposiveness” in Zhuangzi and Laozi becomes a key point for their German philosophical reception; (2) how it is the poetic character of the Zhuangzi that hints at an appropriate response to the crisis and loss of meaning that characterizes technological modernity and its instrumental technological rationality; that is, how the “poetic” and “spiritual” world perceived in Lao-Zhuang thought became part of Buber’s and Heidegger’s critical encounter and confrontation with technological modernity; and (3) how their concern with Zhuangzi does not signify a return to a dogmatic religiosity or otherworldly mysticism; it anticipates a this-worldly spiritual (Buber) or poetic (Heidegger) way of dwelling immanently within the world.

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