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Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds in
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds in
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

There has been a lot of talk in America recently about a new theory called “technocracy”.