Publicaties

In this contribution I reply to Heather Wiltse and Róisín Lally’s commentaries. Both stress the importance of not only looking at gaps, but also accounting for relation and connection—an endeavor which was less visible in my original piece but which I wholly support, and on which I elaborate more here, making use of the example of ‘algorithmic mediation.’ In the process, I attempt to clear up some possible misunderstandings with regard to my ...

A unique and powerful approach in the philosophy of technology, Critical Constructivism endeavors to show how technologies instantiate and consolidate power relations. This chapter elaborates on an enduring vulnerable spot in the framework, namely, that Critical Constructivism only starts to do its work as soon as some problem, struggle, or controversy is recognized as such. Only then, the work of “contestation” can begin. For problems that ...

This paper zooms in on a recent development in the discussion between postphenomenology and critical constructivism: the attempt at working out a political philosophy in the framework of postphenomenology, specifically Peter-Paul Verbeek's. Verbeek contrasts mediation theory to critical theory, arguing that critical theorists only "talk"; they don't "do." While the latter reproach postphenomenology/mediation theory for its lack of politics, ...