techno-politics can you define politics? using technology to achieve political goals or to stabilise political orders ^8709eb technical infrastructure as forms of order eg NY low bridges prevent buses reaching beach destinations. Robert Moses what happens when these exclusionary structures become beloved, part of place - relates to colonialist architecture/21st century backlash against visual/cultural evidence of colonial legacies spatial design/histories of architectures and city planning have both implicit and explicit political purpose spatial design is political anti-protest measures some technology is more explicitly compatible with different political systems eg solar or nuclear, tech for war and tech for good digital technologies, internet sociology, data inequities, etc Resources Protest Image Scrubber ...
technological determinismthe purported inevitability of technological ‘progress’, forward march, innovation for innovations sake, imagined futures from high-tech sci-fi media. tech + future (+ capitalism)...