Reminds me of actor network theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor–network_theory#Human_and_non-human_actors
From: LT <[email protected]> on behalf of Yosem Companys <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 7:58 AM To: Aram Sinnreich <[email protected]> Cc: LT <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] No such thing as liberationtech [Was: Deep Divers] I will just note that historically speaking, Liberationtech was born out of a human-centered perspective in computer science, political science, sociology of technology, and STS. Co-founder Terry Winograd's foundational treatise for the field of HCI is one of our foundational texts: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Computers-Cognition-Foundation-Design/dp/0201112973. Co-founder Larry Diamond's seminal book on liberationtech emphasized that liberationtech is really "liberationtech" because the worthiness and ethics/morality of technology depend both on values and use such that they may be used for liberation and/or oppression: https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/books/liberation-technology/. Following the sociology of technology and STS, my own research on liberationtech based on the history of the netroots movement suggests that the values and use of technology are historically imprinted and socially constructed: https://is.gd/urBnHn. Finally, I will note that in terms of values we always tried to abide by the UN Declaration of Human Rights in terms of both our research and highlighting of activists around the world doing tech for good. (That said, sometimes values that are considered good within that framework pose contradictory demands, so there is no easy answer.) YC On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:39 AM Aram Sinnreich <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: What do you make of Langdon Winner's work, arguing that sociotechnical artifacts have inherent "politics?" Sent from my iPhone > On May 5, 2020, at 10:33 AM, grarpamp > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Technology is but an agnostic tool. > There is no such thing as a liberation tech, > only applied tech via paths toward something. > One cannot apply a tech toward liberation > without first considering what a state of being > of actual liberation might variously be about, > to know where to go, what to make with the tech. > Democracy being nothing more than a > decentralized form of the murderous dictators > many claim to be liberating themselves or people from, > both forms hardly a state of liberation at all, > yet worshipped and profferred by all too many, > we therefore continue this random series > on path choices... > > How to be a tyrant. Sound Familiar? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4LtEciQUF8 > > Deep Divers, let the balloon go! > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbX-Bvb2u_w > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U3lEc-IFr8 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLntHoTgDA > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest > mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
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