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.
• "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.