Problem of Technology and Disability

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?