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The first Reader held an encounter with the discourse around free software with which we viewed the possibility of the formation of a new public domain, and the second raised issues such as biotechnology, surveillance, and the politics of information technology.
This third volume in the series presents a drawing together of many threads that echo and carry forward earlier themes and discussions to offer an array of considerations that locate themselves squarely within the present, while facing the future, and with an eye towards history.
This collection seeks to bring to the fore a series of situations and predicaments that mark the encounter between people and machines, between nature and culture, and between knowledge and power. These encounters, to our thinking, embody the taking on of a particular stance towards the contemporary moment, which, notwithstanding contradictions and beset by metastasizing, proliferating, accelerating energies that pull in different directions, even while marked in equal measure by confidence and scepticism, nevertheless represents a qualified assertion of commitment to living and working in the world today, as active, transforming agents, creating new truths and meanings through praxis.
Shaping Technologies brings together a host of original writing and images on these and other themes by a collection of writers, theorists, critics, photographers, philosophers, engineers, activists, artists, media practitioners and programmers from all over the world. Today, technology is second nature to us. If the landscape of earlier times could be ideally represented by images of naturally occurring objects, then the landscape of the contemporary is one that can only be imagined as being peopled by machines.
