Langdon Winner

Langdon Winner (1944) is Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.

Works

• Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought, MIT Press, 1977, x+386 pp.
  • Tecnología autónoma: la técnica incontrolada como objeto del pensamiento político, trans. Ramón Font Segura and Alberto Cardín Garay, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1979, 383 pp. (Spanish)
  • 자율적 테크놀로지와 정치철학, trans. 강정인, Acanet, 2000, 499 pp. (Korean)
  • Zi zhu xing ji shu: Zuo wei zheng zhi si xiang zhu ti de shi kong ji shu [自主性技术: 作为政治思想主题的失控技术], trans. Haiyan Yang, Beijing: Bei jing da xue chu ban she, 2014, 305 pp. (Chinese)

• "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", Daedalus 109:1, Winter 1980, pp 121-136; repr. in The Social Shaping of Technology, eds. Donald A. MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, London: Open University Press, 1985; adapted in Winner, The Whale and the Reactor, 1986.

• The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, University of Chicago Press, 1986, xiv+200 pp.
  • La ballena y el reactor: una búsqueda de los límites en la era de la alta tecnología, trans. Elizabeth B. Casals, Barcelona: Gedisa, 1987, 208 pp; 2nd ed., rev.ed. Javier Bustamante, 2008, 285 pp. (Spanish)
  • Kujira to genshiro: gijutsu no genkai o motomete [鯨と原子炉: 技術の限界を求めて], Tokyo: Kinokuniyashoten, 2000, 306 pp. (Japanese)
  • La baleine et le réacteur : à la recherche de limites au temps de la haute technologie, trans. & intro. Michel Puech, Paris: Descartes & Cie, 2002, 210 pp. (French)
  • 길을 묻는 테크놀로지 : 첨단 기술 시대의 한계를 찾아서, 씨·아이·알, 2010, xxv+306 pp. (Korean)
  • Balea eta erreaktorea : mugen bilaketa goi teknologiaren aroan, trans. Julen Kaltzada, Donostia: Gaiak, 2011. (Basque)

• Political Ergonomics: Technological Design and the Quality of Public Life, Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum, 1987, 47 pp.

• "Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination", in Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology, ed. Paul T. Durbin, Dordrecht: Springer, 1990, pp 53-64. [1]

• editor, Democracy in a Technological Society, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1992, vii+237 pp.

• "Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology", Science, Technology, & Human Values 18:3, Summer 1993, pp 362-378.
• "How Technology Reweaves the Fabric of Society", The Chronicle of Higher Education 39:48, 4 Aug 1993, pp B1-B3. [2]

• editor, with Andrew Feenberg and Torben Hviid Nielsen, Technology and Democracy: Technology in the Public Sphere, Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture, 1997.

• editor, with Clive Dym, The International Journal of Engineering Education 19(1): "Social Dimensions of Engineering Design", Dublin: Tempus, 2003, 232 pp.

Links

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