Inside the Politics of Technology: Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society

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Inside the Politics of Technology

Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society

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Edited by Hans Harbers

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: January 2021
Print publication year:: 2005
Online ISBN:: 9789048503841
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048503841

Subjects:: Philosophy of Science, Popular Science, Philosophy, General Science

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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.

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Inside the Politics of Technology

Agency and Normativity in the Co-Production of Technology and Society

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

Preface
pp 7-8

Introduction:Co-Production, Agency, and Normativity
pp 9-26

The Distribution of Agency
pp 27-28

Back to the Drawing Board: Inventing a Sociology of Technology
pp 29-60

Artifacts as Social Agents
pp 61-84

Diversity and Distributed Agency in the Design and Use ofMedical Video- Communication Technologies
pp 85-106

The Mediation of Agency
pp 107-108

Choices and Choosing in Cancer Genetics
pp 109-124

Artifacts and Attachment:A Post-Script Philosophy ofMediation
pp 125-146

Art and Technology Playing Leapfrog:A History and Philosophy of Technoèsis
pp 147-168

The Politics ofAgency
pp 169-170

Taking the Socio-Technical Seriously: Exploring the Margins for Change in the Traffic and Transport Domain
pp 171-198

Trapped in the Duality of Structure:An STS Approach to Engineering Ethics
pp 199-228

The Cultural Politics of Prenatal Screening
pp 229-256

Epilogue: Political Materials – Material Politics
pp 257-272

References
pp 273-292

About the Authors
pp 293-296

Index of Names
pp 297-302

Index of Subjects
pp 303-309

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