critical theory today: missing emancipation

Critical Theory Today : Revisiting the Classics

The critical theory of society of the Frankfurt School continues to excite interest and controversy. The critical theorists have deeply influenced contemporary social theory, philosophy, communications theory and research, cultural theory, and other disciplines for six decades. The dream of a interdisciplinary social theory continues to animate the sociological imagination. In recent decades th...

Emancipation or workability ? : Critical versus

In this article a distinction between a pragmatic and a critical orientation of action research is made. These orientations can be considered, implicitly or explicitly, to be the main alternatives in AR today. What are the assumptions behind, and practical implications for, AR projects with different orientations? A number of themes are introduced where a tension between the two are identified ...

EMANCIPATION: Elements of a Critical Realist Approach

Gender, Emancipation and Critical Information Systems

This paper addresses ways in which theorizing gender may be important in forming an understanding of the topic of emancipation which is central to the new critical information systems based on Habermas’s thinking. After briefly introducing current research on gender and IS and arguing that we need to look towards feminist philosophy for appropriate theory in order to understand foundational iss...

Freudian dream theory today

neuropsychological age. IN 1953 a physiological state known as ‘REM sleep’ was discovered by Aserinsky and Kleitman (1953). This is a paradoxical state in which one is simultaneously highly aroused and yet fast asleep. It occurs approximately every 90 minutes throughout the sleep cycle, with monotonous regularity. In 1957 Dement and Kleitman announced that dream reports were obtained from appro...