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SUMMARY:Do artifacts have politics? - Andrea Grimes and Robert Doubleday
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CONTACT:Alan Blackwell
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing "Do artifacts have politics?"\, by Langd
 on Winner.\n\n"Do artifacts have politics?" by Langdon Winner. In\, The So
 cial Shaping of Technology: How the refrigerator got its hum. Edited by Do
 nald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman. 1985.\n\nOpening paragraph: In controvers
 ies about technology and society\, there is no idea more provocative than 
 the notion that technical things have political qualities. At issue is the
  claim that the machines\, structures\, and systems of modern material cul
 ture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficien
 cy and productivity\, not merely for their positive and negative environme
 ntal side effects\, but also for the ways in which they can embody specifi
 c forms of power and authority. Since ideas of this kind have a persistent
  and troubling presence in discussions about the meaning of technology\, t
 hey deserve explicit attention.\n\nAvailable online at: http://www.cc.gate
 ch.edu/~agrimes/winner.pdf
LOCATION:Jasmine Room\, Microsoft Research Cambridge
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