[D66] Günther Anders and the necessity for a critique of technology

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On 01-08-2020 14:06, R.O. wrote:
> https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0725513619864439
> 
> 
> Marxism and technocracy:
> Günther Anders
> and the necessity
> for a critique of technology
> Thesis Eleven
> 1–18
> a The Author(s) 2019
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> DOI: 10.1177/0725513619864439
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> Jason Dawsey
> The National World War II Museum, USA
> Abstract
> This article examines why Günther Anders, one of the 20th century’s most 
> formidable
> critics of technology, deemed a critique of technology necessary at all. 
> I argue that the
> radical philosophy of industrialism in Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 
> (The Obsolescence
> of Human Beings) and related texts is a response to what Anders’s work 
> presents as
> inadequacies of traditional Marxism, with its focus on class struggle 
> and property rela-
> tions. In effect, his critique of technology, which is more attentive to 
> forms of domination
> emergent with mechanization, would come to supplant classical Marxist 
> thought. The
> piece concludes with some thoughts about how Anders’s ‘post-Marxist’ 
> perspective
> provides insights for contemporary Marxism and, in turn, how the latter 
> can throw light
> on problems in Anders’s philosophy of the machine.
> Keywords
> Günther Anders, critique of technology, Marxism, post-Marxism, technology
> 
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