The Algorithmic Thing, The Real, and Contestation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A unique and powerful approach in the philosophy of technology, Critical Constructivism endeavors to show how technologies instantiate and consolidate power relations. This chapter elaborates on an enduring vulnerable spot in the framework, namely, that Critical Constructivism only starts to do its work as soon as some problem, struggle, or controversy is recognized as such. Only then, the work of “contestation” can begin. For problems that ...