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Do Artifacts Have Politics?

Daedalus (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) · Daedalus 109(1), Winter 1980, pp. 121–136

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    Technologies do not enter society neutrally: their effects depend on the surrounding arrangements, and technical designs can embody or require particular distributions of power.

    Locator: Kranzberg's First Law, opening of the article; Winner, sections 'Technical Arrangements and Social Order' and 'Inherently Political Technologies'