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Langdon Winner

Political Science

#436

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#583

Historical Rank

#243

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Langdon Winner's Degrees

Bachelors Political Science Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Langdon Winner 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.

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Langdon Winner's Published Works

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Published Works

Do Artifacts Have Politics (2017) (1574)
Technology as Master. (Book Reviews: Autonomous Technology. Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought) (1977) (1135)
The Whale and the Reactor (2020) (949)
Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology (1993) (815)
The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High (1986) (178)
Social constructivism: Opening the black box and finding it empty∗ (1993) (105)
Citizen virtues in a technological order (1992) (94)
Cyberlibertarian myths and the prospects for community (1997) (93)
Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination (1990) (78)
Social Dimensions of Engineering Design: Observations from Mudd Design Workshop III (2003) (63)
Technologies as Forms of Life (1983) (58)
Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (1994) (53)
Democracy in a technological society (1992) (39)
Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at the Local Level: Affordable Policies for Urban Governments (2007) (39)
Who Will We Be in Cyberspace? (1996) (30)
The political philosophy of alternative technology: Historical roots and present prospects (1979) (29)
The Whale and the Reactor: A Personal Memoir (1980) (17)
Trust and terror: the vulnerability of complex socio‐technical systems (2004) (16)
Technological Euphoria and Contemporary Citizenship (2005) (15)
Technē and Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society (1983) (14)
Mythinformation in the high-tech era (1984) (13)
Information Technology and Educational Amnesia (2009) (12)
The politics of networking technology in health care (1993) (12)
The Voluntary Complexity Movement (2000) (7)
Myth Information: Romantic Politics in the Computer Revolution (1986) (7)
The Enduring Dilemmas of Autonomous Technique (1995) (7)
Technology as "Big Magic" and other Myths (1998) (7)
Rebranding the Anthropocene: A Rectification of Names (2017) (6)
Report from the digital diploma mills conference (1998) (6)
Political Artifacts In Scandinavia: An American Perspective (1994) (6)
The Gloves Come Off: Shattered Alliances in Science and Technology Studies (1996) (5)
Reply to Mark Elam (1994) (5)
On the Foundations of Science and Technology Studies (1986) (4)
Electronic Office: Playpen or Prison (1995) (4)
Look Out for the Luddite Label. (1997) (4)
Philosophers on technology. (1978) (4)
The Risk of Talking About Risk (1986) (3)
Conflicting interests in science and technology studies (1989) (3)
Chapter II. Complexity and the Limits of Human Understanding (2015) (3)
Propaganda and Dissociation from Truth (2013) (2)
The Cult of Innovation: Its Myths and Rituals (2018) (2)
The Politics of Networking in Health Care (1993) (2)
Lifestyle: Mythinformation in the high-tech era: The romanticization of the personal computer as a social panacea threatens to blind society to the fact that without guiding wisdom even the best tool can be misused (1984) (2)
IS THERE A LIGHT UNDER OUR BUSHEL? Three Modest Proposals FOR S.T.S. (1990) (2)
THE CULTURE OF TECHNOLOGY (1998) (2)
Science Policy for True Believers (2004) (2)
An Excerpt from "Technological Determinism: Alive and Kicking? (1997) (2)
It plays like god (1997) (1)
Electronically implanted “values” (1997) (1)
Tha Gloves Come Off:: Shattered Alliancas in Science and Technology Studies (1996) (1)
Facing the Plague: Economic and Political Inequality (2014) (1)
Shattered alliances in science and technology studies (1996) (1)
History of Technology Contextualized: Technology's Storytellers. (1986) (1)
If you liked chaos, you'll love complexity (1993) (1)
Technological Investigations: Wittgenstein’s Liberating Presence (2018) (1)
Immune to serious issues (1996) (1)
Preparing for the Wrong Emergency: Visions of Generation Changing Events (2021) (1)
Do Artifacts Have Politics? (2020) (1)
Computers and hope in an urban ark (1997) (0)
From Participatory Design to Democracy: Social Change as Both Cause and Effekt (1992) (0)
On the Foundations of Science and Technology Studies (1986) (0)
Bad Surprises: Why Things Bite Back . Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. Edward Tenner. Knopf, New York, 1996. xiv, 349 pp. $26. (1996) (0)
Design and Political Artifacts (2017) (0)
Yet Another Culprit@@@The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis@@@Autonomous Technology (1979) (0)
Autonomous Technology – Then and Still Now. An interview (2020) (0)
The Virus Is a Catalyst, Society Itself the Disease (2021) (0)
The Democratic Shaping of Technology: Its Rise, Fall and Possible Rebirth (2021) (0)
Inner and other worlds of technology: the vision of Lewis Mumford (1987) (0)
The impact and issues of the fifth generation: Social and organization consequences of new generation technology (1984) (0)
Ortega’s Tragicomedy of Technology (2012) (0)
Durango Declarations Forum Commentaries (1996) (0)
Social and Technological Choices: Energy and American Values . Ian Barbour, Harvey Brooks, Sanford Lakoff, And John Opie. Praeger, New York, 1982. xvi, 240 pp. Cloth, $26.95; paper, $12.95. (1983) (0)
Biosphere Meets Public Sphere in the Post-Truth Era (2018) (0)
Section 2. Boundary Disagreements (2020) (0)
Social and technological choices. (1983) (0)
Chapter 11: A Non-Marxist Radical Critique (2006) (0)
Bad Surprises: Why Things Bite Back. (1996) (0)

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