CMNS 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Andrew Feenberg, Luddite, Collective Bargaining

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 353
• Professor: Mattew Greaves

Document Summary

Struggle within and between social groups over the allocation of resources that constitute production, distribution, and consumption, as well as the forming of public consciousness toward augmenting these allocations. Creator of the critical theory of tech, as we learned last week. Beliebes that tech emerges from power relations and economic forces. Yet there is no inherent reason a piece of technology is what it is. Tech mediates power relations but how it does this is not predetermined ( what do we mean by power relations ? what does it mean to mediate >> something comes in between. The politics and philosophy of tech in the 19th and 20th century factory. Critical theory of technology worked-up through marx"s theory of alienation ( estrangement from the object of production, tools others, and species-being) ( are separated something) Taylorism/deskilling: in capitalist -organized factory work during the 19th and 20th centuries, labourers were separated from the knowledge of how to complete a commodity.