CS213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Langdon Winner, Determinism
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Technologies are always already embedded in networks of connections. > imagines linear, self generating , rational evolution". > privileges those on the path to technological salvation. From meeting the demands of the body to over-coming the limits of the body-from fact" to. > we cant say the gun is a neutral object but also cant say its technological determinence Causality: something causes (or determines) the action of something else. 2. the attribution of casual power is what permits the distribution of blame or praise. For every action there is an equal but opposite action. 1. that belief that the technical base of a society is the fundamental condition affecting all patterns of social existence that belief that technological change is the single most important source of change in society. Differs from more mechanistic notions of determinism and causality. Also quite prevalent and can even co-occur in the same narrative.
