Overview

This volume represents the breadth of Langdon Winner’s influence and includes chapters from a wide range of scholars from the global north and south working in the fields of engineering, philosophy, STS, and sociology on broad applications, from technological sleepwalking to atmospheric marketing.  As resistance is a central thread throughout all of Winner’s work, these contributions challenge hegemony and reimagine the way things are into the way things might be. The authors provide insights on how Winner’s work continues to remain relevant and insightful in the face of new and emerging technologies.  It appeals broadly to students and researchers and is broken down into three Sections: Theoretical Approaches, Applications, and Pushing Boundaries.

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Author:   Alice Fox ,  Darryl Cressman
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:  

9783032173706

ISBN 10:   3032173701
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   24 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction.- Chapter 1. (How) Do Artefacts Have Politics? (Re-)Tracing the Ontic and the Ontological in Winner’s.- Chapter 2. Artificial Intentions: Winner’s Inherently Political Artifacts, AI and Government.- Chapter 3. Artifacts’ Agency | Designers’ Agency.- Chapter 4. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?”: From Material to Immaterial Dimensions of Urban Infrastructures.- Chapter 5. The Politics of Type 1 Diabetes Management.- Chapter 6. Power and Politics in the Design of Autonomous and AI-Enabled Weapons.- Chapter 7. Technical Alienation, AI, and Autonomous Technology.- Chapter 8. Are We Still Sleepwalking? Rethinking Technological Somnambulism in the Age of AI.- Chapter 9. Invasive Laboratories: A Critique of Induced Vulnerability in the Retail Atmospherics Literature.- Chapter 10. On Bullshit Engines' Politics.- Chapter 11. We Are All Now the Whale and the Reactor, We Are All Now the Coalfields.- Chapter 12. Technological Politics and the Rhetorical Situation.

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Alice  Fox is an interdisciplinary scholar often working at the intersections of ethics, STS, and media studies. Her most recent publications and presentations have been on topics from representations of disability in video games to AI policy surrounding DeepFakes. Alice has been fortunate to work with incredible students from around the US, including George Mason University, the University of Virginia, Stanford University, and Virginia Tech. In between her work and real life demands, she tries to find time to play video games, advocate for change, and garden. Darryl Cressman is a philosopher of technology whose background and interests are quite varied. His current research focuses on the history of the philosophy of technology and he has published books and articles on critical theory and technology, sound studies, media theory, musical culture, and the history of technology.

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