从“天命”到“民主”--论芬伯格的技术变革之路

From “Destiny” to “Democracy”: Feenberg’s Path of Technological Change

传统技术理论无论是工具理论还是实体理论,都视技术为一种天命,认为人类无法干预技术,只能"接受它或抛弃它",因此人类无法解决技术问题。在芬伯格看来,任何一种技术都是特定社会的产物,技术具有社会性。技术的社会性决定了技术不是天命,人们完全可以通过对技术的民主转化来变革技术,从而解决技术所存在的问题。芬伯格通过技术的变革来解决技术问题,不仅为我们思考技术的本质和解决技术问题提供了新思路,而且也为技术的未来发展指明了新方向。

The traditional technology theories, no matter tool theory or entity theory, think that the technology is a kind of destiny. They believe that human being can’t intervention technology and only accept it or abandon it. So the human being can’t solve technical problems. In feenberg’s opinion, any technology is a product of a particular society. So technology is social. The sociality of technology decides that the technology is not destiny. People can change technology by the democratic transformation of technology to solve the existing problems of technology. Feeberg’s methods through technical transformation to solve the technical problem, not only provides a new way to think the technology nature and to solve the technology problem for us, but also points out the new direction of technology in the future.