Technology, Technological Domination, and the Great Refusal: Marcuse’s Critique of the Advanced Industrial Society

Ocay, Jeffry

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“…While recent uprisings in North Africa including Mali, Egypt, Tunisia where partly inspired by economic challenges including lack of formal employment and by struggles against what are termed "long time dictators", domination [global and local] via technologies of subjectivation, including humanoid robots, is seldom recognised in discourses of dictatorship in Africa. For this reason, Herbert Marcuse (see Ocay, 2010) appears to have insightfully argued that technology can also be a tool for social control and domination especially under capitalism, leading to self-destruction. Besides, Ocay, (2010: 57) argues: "In advanced industrial society technology has become a new form of social control which demands total submission to the prevailing social order and which reduces the individual into mere biological machines that respond to technical processes of life".…”

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“…Yet, the sovereignty of African institutions is battered via global technological domination, including impending humanoid robotic takeover. Marcuse (Ocay 2010) has for instance persuasively argued that there is also domination through technology that stifles critical reasoning, innovativeness. Marcuse (Ocay, 2010: 59) argued thus:…”

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Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa

Mawere¹

2017

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where he has worked in different capacities as a Senior lecturer, Assistant Research Director, Postgraduate Co-ordinator and Associate Professor. He has an outstanding publishing record of more than one hundred and twenty pieces of work which include more than twenty-five books and over a hundred book chapters and papers in scholarly journals. Professor Mawere has published extensively on poverty and community development, knowledge studies, political anthropology, science and technology studies (STS), environment and agrarian issues, democracy and African states, coloniality, decoloniality and transformation, African philosophy and political systems, culture and heritage studies. Some of his bestselling books are:

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Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa

Mawere¹

2017

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Praxis Exiled: Herbert Marcuse and the One Dimensional University

Cunningham¹

2013

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Leading Frankfurt School theorist, Herbert Marcuse, possessed an intricate relationship with higher education. As a professor, Marcuse participated in the 1960s student movements, believing that college students had potential as revolutionary subjects. Additionally, Marcuse advocated for a college education empowered by a form of praxis that extended education outside the university into realms of critical thought and action. However, the more pessimistic facet of his theory, best represented in the canonical One Dimensional Man, now seems to be the dominant ideology in the contemporary college experience. With the rise of the corporate university, knowledge is commodified and praxis is supplanted by rampant consumerism. Once a haven for critical theory, the college experience has been overtaken by capitalism, substantially limiting the revolutionary potential for college students in favour of an institutionalised, one dimensional university. HERBERT MARCUSE AND THE LEVELING OF THE COLLEGE LANDSCAPEHerbert Marcuse had a profound faith in the power of student populations. In the 1960s, students carried well-thumbed copies of his most notable work, One Dimensional Man, to demonstrations and protests, reciprocally elevating Marcuse to an esteemed position among theorists during that time. Marcuse, himself, participated in these movements and served as a key speaker in lectures celebrating the critical, the radical, and the avantgarde. Though a keen critic of capitalism's subtle deprivations and a theorist openly pessimistic about the expanding intrusiveness of the technological society, there is an underlying hopefulness pulsing through Marcuse's work. Like any true Marxist-inspired theorist, Marcuse envisioned a better future, one ushered not necessarily by the proletariat, but rather by the hundreds of thousands of college students spread across the United States.Marcuse's faith in college students stemmed from multiple originsidealistic and pragmatic. Those enrolled in universities held the most bs_bs_banner

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Technology, Technological Domination, and the Great Refusal: Marcuse’s Critique of the Advanced Industrial Society

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Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa

Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa

Praxis Exiled: Herbert Marcuse and the One Dimensional University

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