#langdonwinner — Public Fediverse posts

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LangdonWinner #Marketing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida

The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LangdonWinner #Marketing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Canyonlands #Utah

"At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions to efficiency and productivity and their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority."

#LangdonWinner, 1980

https://backspace.com/notes/2008/06/do-artifacts-have-politics.php

"At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions to efficiency and productivity and their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority."

#LangdonWinner, 1980

https://backspace.com/notes/2008/06/do-artifacts-have-politics.php

"Technological politics is a way of framing technologies as neither 'good', 'bad', or 'neutral'. It suggests that, instead, technologies are the products of deeply political processes, knowledge, and systems."

#AGrowingCulture, 2024

https://substack.com/home/post/p-143200453

This piece links to a paper called 'Do Artifacts Have Politics?' by Langdon Winner. After searching with a few different search portals, I found the full text on the web;

https://backspace.com/notes/2008/06/do-artifacts-have-politics.php

#TechnologicalPolitics #LangdonWinner

"Technological politics is a way of framing technologies as neither 'good', 'bad', or 'neutral'. It suggests that, instead, technologies are the products of deeply political processes, knowledge, and systems."

#AGrowingCulture, 2024

https://substack.com/home/post/p-143200453

This piece links to a paper called 'Do Artifacts Have Politics?' by Langdon Winner. After searching with a few different search portals, I found the full text on the web;

https://backspace.com/notes/2008/06/do-artifacts-have-politics.php

#TechnologicalPolitics #LangdonWinner

As a teacher of budding scientific and technical professionals, I’m again and again struck by how little sense of personal autonomy is part of today’s education, our modern ›Paideia.‹ Students hope to master the fundamentals of, say, one of the branches of engineering, get a ›good job,‹ come up with some lucrative ›innovation‹ and live happily ever after. Very often they simply lack any sense that they might reflect upon, talk about, and seek to realize an independent, personal understanding of life’s possibilities. Thus, the autonomy of technology often comes to the fore when ascertaining people’s sense of basic priorities. But the intellectual and moral autonomy of today’s students, employees and citizens? Not so much.

... surprises and troubles attributed to technologies that seem to have become ›autonomous‹ can often be traced back to the persons and groups that are ›in charge.‹ Marx describes the kinds of mechanical apparatus that fully claimed the bodies and minds of factory workers in his day. As he explains such calamities in his h#TheoryOfCapital, it’s clear that the owners of the #MeansOfProduction bear full responsibility for what happens.

Gracias @Tefaa por mostrarnos a Langdon Winner y su escrito: "Los artefactos tienen política?", que, citando a Platón, Marx, Engels, Lewis Mumford y probablemente construyendo sobre el trabajo de Marshall Mcluhan, brinda un análisis sobre los medios tecnológicos que parece más relevante que nunca en el escenario del Capitalismo de Vigilancia que ha descrito Shoshana Zuboff.
#langdonwinner
#capitalismodevigilancia
#marshallmcluhan
#elmedioeselmensaje
#lewismumford

Gracias @Tefaa por mostrarnos a Langdon Winner y su escrito: "Los artefactos tienen política?", que, citando a Platón, Marx, Engels, Lewis Mumford y probablemente construyendo sobre el trabajo de Marshall Mcluhan, brinda un análisis sobre los medios tecnológicos que parece más relevante que nunca en el escenario del Capitalismo de Vigilancia que ha descrito Shoshana Zuboff.
#langdonwinner
#capitalismodevigilancia
#marshallmcluhan
#elmedioeselmensaje
#lewismumford