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Technology as Politics

  • technologies are never just technical, but full of social, political, cultural choices

    • technology is neither good nor bad nor neutral (Marshall McLuhan)
    • often hidden
    • as social life becomes more technologically mediated, these choices matter more
    • choices are materialized on the level of code
    • code as architecture (Lawrence Lessig)
    • technology is society made durable (Bruno Latour)