Andrew Feenberg
Andrew Feenberg Andrew Feenberg was born in 1943 in the United States. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego, in 1972 under Marcuse, whose direct student he was during the final years of the exiled German philosopher’s career. As a student, Feenberg was actively involved with the New Left, founding the journal Alternatives and taking part, alongside Marcuse himself, in the May 1968 events in Paris — Marcuse, who was in the city for a UNESCO conference on Marx, was recognized by students occupying the École des Beaux-Arts and invited to address the assembly; Feenberg, who accompanied him, witnessed the episode and would, decades later, co-write with Jim Freedman the book When Poetry Ruled the Streets (2001), on that movement. He taught philosophy at San Diego State University from 1969 to 2003, with visiting appointments at Duke, SUNY Buffalo, the Sorbonne, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Tokyo, among other institutions. He later held the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he directed the Applied Communication and Technology Lab (ACT Lab) until becoming professor emeritus. ...