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Langdon Winner




Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , Troy , New York since 1990.

In 1973 , Winner graduated with a Ph.D. from the University Of California, Berkeley . He was assistant professor in Leiden , at MIT , at the University Of California, Los Angeles and at the University Of California, Santa Cruz . From 1985 onwards he worked at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; he was a visiting professor at Harvey Mudd College .

Winner lives in New York. He is married to Gail P. Stuart and has three children. His interests include Philosophy Of Technology , American Popular Culture , and theories of Sustainability .

Winner is known for his articles and books on science, technology, and society.

He also spent several years as a reporter for '' Rolling Stone '' magazine.


SELECTED ARTICLES


  • "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" in ''Daedalus'', Vol. 109, No. 1, Winter 1980. Reprinted in ''The Social Shaping of Technology'', edited by Donald A. MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman (London: Open University Press, 1985; second edition 1999).


  • "Social Constructivism: Opening the Black Box and Finding It Empty," ''Science as Culture'', Vol. 3, part 3, no. 16, pp. 427-452.


  • "How Technology Reweaves the Fabric of Society," ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', 39, Issue 48, August 4, 1993, pp. B1-B3.



SELECTED BOOKS


  • ''Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought'', M.I.T. Press, 1977. (ISBN 978-0262730495)


  • ''The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology'', University of Chicago Press, 1986. (ISBN 978-0226902111)


  • ''Technology and Democracy'', (editor), Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel/Kluwer, 1992.


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



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