Thinkers · Technology Studies
Langdon Winner (1944–)
- National background
- American
- 한국어
- 랭던 위너
- 中文（简体）
- 兰登·温纳
- English pronunciation
- /ˈlæŋdən ˈwɪnər/LANG-dun WIN-er
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The politics of artifacts and choices about technological systems.
Overview
Winner treats the design and adoption of technologies as questions about power and collective life. The Whale and the Reactor asks how technical arrangements embody choices about authority, freedom, and justice. His work encourages readers to examine what kinds of social order a technology makes possible, alongside questions about its efficiency or usefulness.