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
- NY low bridges prevent buses reaching beach destinations. Robert Moses
- 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