Infrastructure and the state in science and technology studies

Long-time scholars of science and technology studies (STS) may be surprised to learn that Winner’s question – ‘do artifacts have politics?’ – is not the foundation of contemporary literature on technological infrastructure and the politics of the state. The question was first raised in an article published in Daedalus (Winner, 1980), reprinted in The Social Shaping of Technology (MacKenzie and Wajcman, 1999), and then adapted for Winner’s (1986) book; is it now possible that artifacts and infrastructure no longer ‘have’

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