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Current debates on sustainability are building on a problematic assumption that technological advancement is a desired phenomenon, creating positive change in human organisations. This transdisciplinary book develops a new way to conceptualise and examine technology, and outlines feasible alternatives for sustainability beyond technology.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Necessity (and Spirit) of Critique in Andrew Feenberg's Philosophy of Technology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Democratic Potentials -- 1.3 Trajectories of Contemporary Critique -- 1.4 Critical Theories of Technology -- 1.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Critical Constructivism: An Exposition and Defense -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Why Marx? -- 2.3 Technology and Political Theory -- 2.4 Operational Autonomy -- 2.5 Democratization -- 2.6 Formal Bias -- 2.7 Instrumentalization Theory -- 2.8 Consequences -- Bibliography -- Part I: Democratic Potentials -- Chapter 3: The Critical Theory of the Common Good, Technology, and the Corona Tracking App -- 3.1 Theory -- 3.2 Critical Theory -- 3.3 Critical Theory of Technology -- References -- Chapter 4: Andrew Feenberg and the Distorted Democratization of Technology: Covid-19 and the Case of Hydroxychloroquine -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Technological Democratization -- 4.3 Case Study: HIV/AIDS -- 4.4 Hydroxychloroquine -- 4.5 Disinformation and Political Polarization -- 4.6 Scientific and Technological Opacity -- 4.7 Reified Economic Structures -- 4.8 Ossified Internet Space -- 4.9 Ways Forward and Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Chapter 5: Beyond the Design Code: Critical Design and Democratic Rationalizations -- 5.1 A Missed Encounter -- 5.2 The Design Code -- 5.3 What Designers Do -- 5.4 (co)Design -- 5.5 (re)Design -- 5.6 (un)Design -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Who Controls the Smart City? From Machines of Loving Grace to a Democratic Transformation from Below -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Choice Architectures -- 6.3 Democratic Legitimacy -- 6.4 Technological Rationality -- 6.5 Opening the Smart City -- References -- Part II: Trajectories of Contemporary Critique -- Chapter 7: Critical (Big) Data Studies -- 7.1 Introduction.

AbstractExperimental philosophy is a relatively recent discipline that employs experimental methods to investigate the intuitions, concepts, and assumptions behind traditional philosophical arguments, problems, and theories. While experimental philosophy initially served to interrogate the role that intuitions play in philosophy, it has since branched out to bring empirical methods to bear on problems within a variety of traditional areas of philosophy—including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. To date, no connection has been made between developments in experimental philosophy and philosophy of technology. In this paper, I develop and defend a research program for an experimental philosophy of technology.

Intro -- Globalization, Technology, and Philosophy -- Contents -- Introduction by David Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski -- Part One: Community -- 1. Democracy in the Age of Globalization by Waller R. Newell -- 2. Communication versus Obligation: The Moral Status of Virtual Community by Darin Barney -- 3. Technology and the Great Refusal: The Information Age and Critical Social Theory by Bernardo Alexander Attias -- 4. On Globalization, Technology, and the New Justice by Tom Darby -- 5. What Globalization Do We Want? by Don Ihde -- 6. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Reflections on the Twentieth Century by Andrew Feenberg -- Part Two: Humanity -- 7. The Problem with "The Problem of Technology" by Arthur M. Melzer -- 8. Global Technology and the Promise of Control by Trish Glazebrook -- 9. The Human Condition in the Age of Technology by Gilbert Germain -- 10. Technology and the Ground of Humanist Ethics by Ian Angus -- 11. Recomposing the Soul: Nietzsche's Soulcraft by Horst Hutter -- 12. Globalization, Technology, and the Authority of Philosophy by Charlotte Thomas -- 13. Persons in a Technological Universe by Donald Phillip Verene -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.