techno-politics

  • can you define politics?
  • using technology to achieve political goals or to stabilise political orders
  • 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