Comrades, in the true spirit of creative commons I'm looking for some help from you guys.
For my course Advanced Theory & Method I am writing a 4-5,000 word essay on-I think-'The Ethics of Science' (title to be added after completion!)
So Heidegger is the obvious place to start here but I can only find Alex Callinicos' writings on Heidegger in Social Theory, and the odd, very good (not odd!), reference in The Resources of Critique (excellent btw). But he is not as disparaging-or at least his critique is somewhat limited-as I would have thought him to be.
Please could you point me in the right direction as to 1) what the heck Heidegger is talking about in his On the Question of Technology 2) a good counter argument (mind u, if I understood said essay I may be able to analyse it myself!) and 3) any other useful references for this topic.
Your help will be greatly appreciated and will earn u a wiki point.
Cheers.
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Got loads of good links for this query: From @bat020 See chapters 4 and 5 of Alain Badiou's Manifesto For Philosophy http://is.gd/5hPpa
From Richard Seymour: Adorno - http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-WN9hmEm2rYC&dq=adorno+the+jargon+of+authenticity&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=-2M9Lk628J&sig=R2y_A4GnBwy-tKjSEzBsbQAqT_k&hl=en&ei=eOsgS4jtEISy4Qaa2vjvCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false
From Marco Boffo: not quite a critique of heidegger, but still useful (maybe)
http://books.google.com/books?id=0wk9PAAACAAJ&dq=karl+marx+on+technology+and+alienation&cd=1
From Anna Strhan: Not straightforwardly Marxist (and not so much about techne either!), but might still be useful: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=2480
From Fabio: I saw your tweet.
I assume you know about this? http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1tZpsoCx0mIC&dq=heidegger+marxism&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=OOkgS9WvOeTRjAfdhaHYBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=heidegger%20marxism&f=false
More on Adorno from @averyps and 3 more which r email attachments which I will post once on a normal computer.
Cheers guys (& girls obviously!). I now have loads to get through!
BadScience.net has good forums.
Hmm. Well if you want to critique the idea of "information" and the way it masks the unpredictability of human agency you can try here:
www.media-anthropology.net/taghioff_finding_subject.pdf
You can follow it up with Tsing's Critique of "Flow" in the introduction to Friction:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7885.html
Then you can look at Bruno Latour to think about how collectives are made in practice.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Pdr6jbCGORsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=Latour+Social+Nature&ots=hM1hmtTClX&sig=0fkfksFceQW_n7C6RfbUuPXF94c#v=onepage&q=Latour%20Social%20Nature&f=false
Then stop and think that a state is a technology, but also a state of mind.
Bourdieu is helpful here:
Bourdieu, P. (1999). Rethinking the state: Genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field. State/Culture: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn, 53-75.
Can send pdf if you like
Then, if you are still hung up on realist ontology, a bit of quantum physics can help you let go of hang ups around basic states of reality:
Rovelli, C. (1996). Relational quantum mechanics. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 35(8), 1637-1678.
http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9609002
Have fun and be more than a machine...
The best overall critique of Heidegger is Paul Edwards, 'Heidegger's Confusions' (Prometheus Books, 2004).
This book shows just how confused Heidegger is -- to such an extent that it is difficult to see why anyone takes him seriously.
I have tried to show how and why traditional philosophy like Heidegger's, which tries to derive fundamental truths about reality from thought alone, will always be confused, here:
http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/page%2012_01.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/heartfield-james.htm - expelling the subject paves the way for putting technology in the driving seat of social change.
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