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Vol. 2 (2024)

The Problem of Technology and Disability: Review of Shew, A. (2023). Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. (176 pages)

DOI
https://doi.org/10.59490/jhtr.2024.2.7942
Submitted
December 5, 2024
Published
2024-12-20

Abstract

JHTR Journal of Human-Technology RelationsVol. 2(2024)2Ashley Shew’s Against Technoableismis one of the most important and original works in the philosophy of technology of the current generation. This short and accessible volume offers a clear and sharp-elbowed critique of ablism as it relates to technology, a useful introduction to many ideas from work in disability studies, as well as deeply-penetrating insights into how to think about technology generally. These insights challenge our intuitions about technologies—including those held by engineers, philosophers, and other card-carrying technology experts—about everything from the politics of technology, to the impact of media narratives, to what it means to develop technology to solve a problem for someone. What problem? Whose problem? Framed, defined, and articulated by whom?

References

  1. Shew, A. (2023). Against Technoableism: Rethinking who needs improvement. W. W. Norton & Company.
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