Inside the Politics of Technology: Agency and Normativity in the Co-production of Technology and SocietyHans Harbers Amsterdam University Press, 2005 - 308 pagina's Though the old saying claims that man is the measure of all things, the authors of Inside the Politics of Technology argue that the distinction implied between autonomous humans and neutral instruments of technology is an illusion. On the contrary, the technologies humans create simultaneously shape humans themselves. By means of case studies of technologies as diverse as video cameras, electric cars, pregnancy tests, and genetic screenings, this volume considers the implications of this "co-production" of technology and society for our philosophical and political ideas. Are only humans endowed with social, political, and moral agency, or does our technology share those qualities? And if so, how should we understand—or practice—a politics of technology? |
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Pagina 63 - Taking the most obvious example, the atom bomb is an inherently political artifact. As long as it exists at all, its lethal properties demand that it be controlled by a centralized, rigidly hierarchical chain of command closed to all influences that might make its workings unpredictable. The internal social system of the bomb must be authoritarian; there is no other way.
Pagina 133 - ... motives, aspirations, political prejudices, and the rest, and they assume that morality, technology, science and economy will evolve in particular ways. A large part of the work of innovators is that of inscribing this vision of (or prediction about) the world in the technical content of the new object. I will call the end product of this work a "script
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Pagina 133 - Designers thus define actors with specific tastes, competences, motives, aspirations, political prejudices, and the rest, and they assume that morality, technology, science, and economy will evolve in particular ways. A large part of the work of innovators is that of "inscribing" this vision of (or prediction about) the world in the technical content of the new object.
Pagina 46 - Which is why, though we cannot, to be sure, say very much about it, we do not wish to link a notion of agency to linguistic re-presentation. For signification — or so we have suggested — is more general than talk. It comes in all kinds of forms. And some, though only some, we can imagine. Others, no doubt, we will never know.