https://mikechiasson.ca/ 2026-04-11T05:33:11+00:00 https://mikechiasson.ca/ https://mikechiasson.ca/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-11-02T00:33:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/andrew_feenberg?rev=1730507609&do=diff see instrumentalization text/html 2024-12-04T19:12:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/design?rev=1733339526&do=diff Design A focal point for a range of controversies, in terms of: * “what design is” * how it is done * who is in charge of both the process and outcomes * and what is its purpose. Design also has a double aspect in that the same questions asked of it can also be asked of what it produces and renders. text/html 2024-11-01T22:46:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/hannah_arendt?rev=1730501209&do=diff Hannah Arendt's work focuses primarily on the ways individuals and collectives can think and act in ways that escape the social and political conditions which inhibit ethical and imaginative thinking and action, broadly speaking. Her work emerges out of the tragedy and chaos of World War II and the holocaust, having escaped as a Jewish woman to the United States. text/html 2024-11-04T23:52:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/instrumentalization?rev=1730764338&do=diff Instrumentalization A key concept in Feenberg critical theory of technology, is to make technology a key part of critical theoretical analysis and concerns, and to consider where democratic rationalization can take place. His attempt to do so revolves around a splitting of the social and technical, and their relative intertwining, into the text/html 2024-12-04T19:02:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/metaphysics?rev=1733338931&do=diff From Wikapedia: The beginning of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of the foundational texts of the discipline Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is traditionally seen as the study of mind-independent features of the world, text/html 2024-10-30T20:36:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/reflective_judgment?rev=1730320589&do=diff A final stage of Immanauel Kant's thinking, as he appeared to be cleaning up from his Critique of Pure Reason, and Critique of Practical Reason, through his Critique of Judgment. More.... text/html 2024-11-05T20:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/start?rev=1730838887&do=diff * start * start * start * start Pages in this namespace: * andrew_feenberg * design * hannah_arendt * instrumentalization * metaphysics * reflective_judgment * value * value_theory text/html 2024-10-23T20:46:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/value_theory?rev=1729716414&do=diff From: <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-theory/> “But in a more useful sense, “value theory” designates the area of moral philosophy that is concerned with theoretical questions about value and goodness of all varieties — the theory of value. The theory of value, so construed, encompasses axiology, but also includes many other questions about the nature of value and its relation to other moral categories text/html 2024-10-23T20:42:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mikechiasson.ca/value?rev=1729716179&do=diff From: <https://www.etymonline.com/word/value> value (n.) c. 1300, “price equal to the intrinsic worth of a thing;” late 14c., “degree to which something is useful or estimable,” from Old French value “worth, price, moral worth; standing, reputation” (13c.), noun use of fem. past participle of valoir