ARTIFACTS POLITICS

Do Artifacts have Politics?

Do Artifacts have Politics?

Introduction

There are various ways in which artifacts can symbolize precise shapes of authority and power. However, the paper discusses part of the political system vs. having political properties inherently. Moreover, social determination of technology focus on social/economic system in which technology gets embedded. However, it got noted that all the technologies mention are global infrastructures, as opposed to things like handheld devices or unique tools. This makes political arguments much more salient while de-emphasizing any smaller-scale impacts on individual ways of living. Theory of technological politics displays that thrust of significant socio-technical systems, adaptation ...