Critical Constructivism and Intervention
Beyond Technology as an Ideology
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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-480Keywords:
sociology of technology, constructivism, determinism, posthumanism, actor-network theory, essentialismAbstract
Technical action represents a partial escape from the human condition, and this explains how in modernity there have been different ways of interacting with technique. A brief review of them shows us not only their successes and shortcomings, but also the saturation that results from such critical deployment. Not long ago it was fashionable among social critics to condemn technology as such. That attitude endures and inspires a certain haughty disdain for technology among intellectuals who, nevertheless, constantly employ it in their daily lives. However, social critique has increasingly turned to the study and advocacy of possible reconfigurations and transformations of technology to accommodate actors excluded from the original design networks. This approach first emerged in the environmental movement, which succeeded in changing the design of technologies through regulation and litigation, and continues today in proposals for the transformation of biotechnologies and information technology. The constructive critique of technology points to its democratic repoliticization, a change that forces the reuse of certain concepts.
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