This book explores Andrew Feenberg's idea that technology is both the main medium of domination in contemporary society and the principal site of democratic resistance. It presents his work as an account of the connection between disputes over the design of specific technologies and the challenge of constructing a new, sustainable civilisation.

Graeme Kirkpatrick is Professor of Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester

Introduction: from critical theory to technical politics
1 Critical theory and technology
2 The theory of bias and the ethics of technology design
3 Technical politics
4 Aesthetic critique
5 From critique to utopia
Beyond critique: utopia
References
Index