Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136
Do Artifacts Have Politics?
Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136
Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry
Abstract. This essay presents the idea of governance archaeology, an approach to learning from the past to inform the politics of the future. By reporting on a prototype historical database, we outline a strategy for co-producing a global commons of collective governance practices that can inspire institutional learning and experimentation, particularly in the face of rapid technological change and vexing global crises. Embedded in our approach is an orientation of ancestry whereby practitioners cultivate relationships of accountability and responsibility to the legacies they learn from, recognizing the harm from past patterns of exploitation. By taking seriously a wide range of historical governance practices, particularly those outside the Western canon, governance archaeology seeks to expand the options available for the design of more moral political economies.
annotations: Politique et technologie
traduction française du billet de blog "Politics and technology" de Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
What will the paper of the future look like? | I4R
In the course of my research, I will occasionally indulge in a session of academic archaeology and follow a trail of references back in time to see if I can find the source of some particular concept or idea. I would like to think that acquiring this ki…
Museums in the Fediverse: Experiments with Tainacan, ActivityPub, and WebSocial – Ecologia Digital
Below, we present the slides and the text of José Murilo’s presentation, representing Ibram-Museus at the 1st WebSocialBR in Brasília, on December 3, 2025.
annotations: L’abondance en ressources naturelles nuit-elle à la démocratie ?
traduction de "Natural resources and political institutions: Democracy" "More on natural resources and democracy" de Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
Politics Is for Power
A groundbreaking analysis of political hobbyism—treating politics like a spectator sport—and an urgent and timely call to arms for the many well-me...
On the Concept of the Political in AI-Generated Art – Open Assembly
Plotting is an online publication gathered and organized by LASP Rietveld.
The Internet Classics Archive | Politics by Aristotle
Politics by Aristotle, part of the Internet Classics Archive
Collections: What Do Historians Do?
For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets…
Read The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
1935 essay by Walter Benjamin; proposes that mechanical reproduction devalues the aura of an artwork, that—in the age of mechanical reproduction and traditional ritualistic value’s absence—art production would be inherently based on political praxis
The Ancient Invention That Solves Corruption
The Skeleton Library
On Interpolatable Archives, Part 1: Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital Oralities
Repenser la fiscalité lors de l'héritage – Institut Veblen / Veblen Institute
Article paru dans l'Économie Politique n°96, "Repenser la fiscalité dans le cadre des successions", abordant notamment la question de l'utilisation des plus-values immobilières comme assiette fiscale.
annotations: Démocratie versus inégalités
traduction française du billet de blog "Democracy vs. inequality" de Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson