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		microtonal on June 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imaginat... Technology enlarges the consequences of moral choices, but it does not carry an inherent morality. Bruno Latour wrote a lot about this subject, and it is often insightful. There is a nice summary of [1] here: http://doorsausage.blogspot.de/2009/02/morality-of-speed-bum... [1] http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/54-TECHNIQUES...

64598u3wieodsk on June 8, 2014 [–]

I appreciate you citing Latour. I agree his works have much to offer to science, technology and society. Slightly OT, but if you’re interested in a more critical take on some (recent) papers by Latour, I can recommend this review by Joel Wainwright.

http://geography.osu.edu/faculty/jwainwright/publications/Wa...

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