The Whale and the Reactor (final installment)
Let me conclude these posts on Winner’s book by looking at its third and last section, “Excess and Limit.”...
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Let me conclude these posts on Winner’s book by looking at its third and last section, “Excess and Limit.”...
It was a remarkable experience to read Winner’s sixth chapter, “Mythinformation,” in the light of some recent...
The idea that Reagan Ruined Everything seems to dominate, silently, the next chapter, “Decentralization Clarified.”...
Winner’s chapter “Building a Better Mousetrap” contains a wonderful brief history of “appropriate technology”...
I’m finding Winner’s core arguments rather elusive. I am not sure whether that’s my fult as reader or his as...
Just a couple of brief points from Winner’s second chapter. First, he argues very compellingly that we would be...
The second chapter of The Whale and the Reactor is titled “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”, and it is concerned with...
When Winner wrote The Whale and the Reactor, in the mid-1980s, personal computers were not yet ubiquitous. I had bought...
The chief theme of the opening pages of The Whale and the Reactor is the absence of a substantial philosophy of...