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The Neutrality of Technology

7/16/2017

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​"technological tools are generally developed in response to certain problems and agendas. As a result their design and maximum functionality is tied to their original aim. Tools also emanate from a cultural context. Their aims reveal what the toolmakers conceptualized as a problem, and what a desirable solution looked like. Thus, technological tools carry a number of embedded assumptions, which in turn can be scrutinized for the aims and cultural values that gave rise to them and that they reinforce. Put another way, they embody a set of cultural values." 
Hussein Keshani, “Towards digital Islamic art history.” Journal of Art Historiography, no. 6 June 2012, 11-12.
(original sources: Andrew Feenberg, ‘Can Technology Incorporate Values? Marcuse's Answer to the Question of the Age’, conference paper delivered at The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse, University of California – Berkeley, 7 November 1998; Mary Flanagan, Daniel C. Howe and Helen Nissenbaum, ‘16 - Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice’, in Jeroen van den Hoven, ed., Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 322-53.)
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    I am Nader Sayadi, a researcher and educator in architecture who studies and teaches built environment and material culture history. I am also an architectural designer and historic preservationist. This is where I would like to share my thoughts about my interests in the related fields.

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