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词条 Langdon Winner
释义

  1. Technology and politics

  2. Music

  3. Critique of educational technologies

  4. Selected articles

  5. Selected books

  6. References

  7. External links

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| birth_place = San Luis Obispo, California
| occupation = Thomas Phelan Chair, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| spouse = Gail P. Stuart
| children = 3
| website =   [https://www.langdonwinner.com/]
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Langdon Winner (born August 7, 1944) is Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Langdon Winner was born in San Luis Obispo, California on August 7, 1944. He received his B.A. in 1966, M.A. in 1967 and Ph.D. in 1973, all in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary focus was political theory.

He has been a professor at Leiden, MIT, University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since 1985 he has been at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; he was a visiting professor at Harvey Mudd College (2000) and Colgate University (2001). In 2010 he was a Fulbright Fellow visiting the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.

Winner lives in upstate New York. He is married to Gail P. Stuart and has three children. His interests include science, technology, American popular culture, and theories of sustainability.

Winner is known for his articles and books on science, technology, and society. He also spent several years as a reporter, rock music critic, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine.[1]

Technology and politics

In 1980 Winner proposed that technologies embody social relations, i.e. power.[2] To the question he poses "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", Winner identifies two ways in which artifacts can have politics. The first, involving technical arrangements and social order, concerns how the invention, design, or arrangement of artifacts or the larger system becomes a mechanism for settling the affairs of a community. This way "transcends the simple categories of 'intended' and 'unintended' altogether", representing "instances in which the very process of technical development is so thoroughly biased in a particular direction that it regularly produces results heralded as wonderful breakthroughs by some social interests and crushing setbacks by others" (Winner, p. 25-6, 1999). It implies that the process of technological development is critical in determining the politics of an artifact; hence the importance of incorporating all stakeholders in it. (Determining who the stakeholders are and how to incorporate them are other questions entirely.)

The second way in which artifacts can have politics refers to artifacts that correlate with particular kinds of political relationships, which Winner refers to as inherently political artifacts (Winner, p. 22, 1999). He distinguishes between two types of inherently political artifacts: those that require a particular sociological system and those that are strongly compatible with a particular sociological system (Winner, p. 29, 1999). A further distinction is made between conditions internal to the workings of a given technical system and those that are external to it (Winner, p. 33, 1999). This second way in which artifacts can have politics can be further articulated as consisting of four 'types' of artifacts: those requiring a particular internal sociological system, those compatible with a particular internal sociological system, those requiring a particular external sociological system, and those compatible with a particular external sociological system.

Certain features of Winner's thesis have been criticized by other scholars, including Bernward Joerges.[3] Such criticisms are often narrowly focused upon particular cases in Winner's essays, the height of the bridges built by Robert Moses on the Long Island Parkway, for example, and tend to overlook his general arguments about the interweaving of political institutions and technological devices.

Music

Winner contributed piano and backing vocals to the hoax album The Masked Marauders created by Rolling Stone.[4]

Critique of educational technologies

Over the years one focus of Winner's criticism has been the excessive use of technologies in the classroom, both in K-12 schools and higher education. Winner's critique is well explained in his article "Information Technology and Educational Amnesia,"[5] and expressed in his satirical lecture, "The Automatic Professor Machine."[6]

Selected articles

  • "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" in Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter 1980. Reprinted in The Social Shaping of Technology, edited by Donald A. MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (London: Open University Press, 1985; second edition 1999). Also adapted in Winner's book "The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology", University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  • "Social Constructivism: Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty," Science as Culture, Vol. 3, part 3, no. 16, pp. 427–452.
  • "How Technology Reweaves the Fabric of Society," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 39, Issue 48, August 4, 1993, pp. B1-B3.
  • "Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination," in Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology, edited by Paul T. Durbin (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1990), pp. 53–64.

Selected books

  • Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought, M.I.T. Press, 1977. ({{ISBN|978-0262730495}})
  • The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, University of Chicago Press, 1986. ({{ISBN|978-0226902111}})
  • Technology and Democracy, (editor), Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel/Kluwer, 1992.
  • Technology and Democracy: Technology in the Public Sphere, co-edited with Andrew Feenberg and Torben Hviid Nielsen, Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture, 1997.

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.langdonwinner.com/about/|title=About: Brief Biography|website=Langdon Winner (personal website)|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-04}}
2. ^"Do Artifacts Have Politics?" in Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter 1980. Reprinted in The Social Shaping of Technology, edited by Donald A. MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (London: Open University Press, 1985; second edition 1999)
3. ^[https://www.academia.edu/2628379/Do_Politics_Have_Artefacts_1999_ An attempted rebuttal to Winner’s argument is Bernward Joerges’ “Do Politics have Artefacts?” (Requires sign-in)]
4. ^{{citation | title = The Masked Marauders - The Complete Deity Recordings | publisher = Rhino Records | accessdate = 2008-04-13}}
5. ^{{Cite journal|last=Winner|first=Langdon|date=2009-12-01|title=Information Technology and Educational Amnesia|url=https://www.langdonwinner.com/other-writings/2017/6/13/information-technology-and-educational-amnesia|journal=Policy Futures in Education|volume=7|issue=6|pages=587–591|doi=10.2304/pfie.2009.7.6.587|via=}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.langdonwinner.com/videos-and-music/|title=Videos and Music|website=Langdon Winner (personal website)|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-04}}

External links

  • Langdon Winner's homepage
  • Several articles by Langdon Winner at the Online Luddism Index
  • Langdon Winner's blog
  • Video: Dialogue between Langdon Winner and Yochai Benkler on The Wealth of Networks at Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain) on June 30, 2010.
  • Video: "Local citizens against global, corporate power" Talk at Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain) on June 8, 2011.
  • [https://archive.org/detailsLangdonWinnerNuevasTecnologasYDemocraciaRealYaLaInvisibleJunio/ Audio: "New technologies and Real Democracy Now!] Talk at La Casa Invisible (Málaga, Spain) on June 15, 2011.
  • {{YouTube|usH1PRbAXKA|15M.cc conversation with Langdon Winner}} on Spanish M15 movement (November, 2011).
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6 : Living people|Science and technology studies scholars|Neo-Luddites|University of California, Berkeley alumni|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty|1944 births

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