With the transmediale Marshall McLuhan Lecture the transmediale invites a figure from the Canadian cultural landscape, whose work expands on McLuhan’s media theories in the context of contemporary culture and society to present their insights. This year’s speaker, Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of  Technology at the School of Communication of Simon Fraser University. His lecture is entitled Ten Paradoxes of Technology and with it Feenberg will present a philosophy of technology by drawing upon what we have learnt in the last 30 years as we abandoned old Heideggerian and positivist notions and faced the real world of technology. Knowing that most of our common sense ideas about technology are wrong Feenberg will present ten propositions put forth in the form of paradoxes (albeit using the word loosely). The story is one of reconciling the incompatibilities between whole and part, lay and expert, means and ends, authority and democracy, reason and experience. The evening will be moderated by Kristoffer Gansing.

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Posted: Friday, February 3rd, 2012 @ 4:32 pm
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