Title: Agency, Citizenship, and Technology
Date: Monday, May 30
Time: 10:30-12:00
Place: Auditorium 2, IT University,
Rued Langgaardsvej 7, 2300 Copenhagen S
In the public lecture “Agency, Citizenship and Technology” Andrew Feenberg addresses issues of public participation in technological development, design and policy, and raises questions about the possibilities and challenges of democratizing technology. Starting with a discussion of the relationship between technology and society from a philosophical perspective, he goes on to engage actual cases and strategies of public involvement in technical design and decision-making.
Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Transforming Technology, Questioning Technology, Alternative Modernity, Heidegger and Marcuse, and Reason and Experience, co-author of When Poetry Ruled the Streets, and co-editor of Technology and the Politics of Knowledge, Modernity and Technology, and The Essential Marcuse. He has taught at Duke University, San Diego State University, the University of Paris, and the University of Tokyo.
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