Reseach On Langdon Winner's Technical Political Thought

This article is on the background of the intertwined development of high-tech systems,from the perspective of philosophy of technology,combined with the perspective of technical politics,to explore the technical autonomy and political relations of Langdon Winner's political ideas.Langdon Winner's idea of technological politics includes two aspects:"the loss of control of autonomous technology" and "the political nature of technology".The former includes Winner's redefinition of the definition of technology and the tracing of the causes of technological out-of-control;Including Winner's division of technical politics and thinking.Through the redefinition of technical concepts and the examination of autonomous technical systems,Winner put forward original concepts such as "technology drift","technical regulations"and "reverse adaptation",clarifying that technological autonomy restructures the social basis and order in technological change and changes the relationship between technology and humanity.Winner,with his deep political foundation,divided and investigated the political nature of the man-made objects in the autonomous technology system.Eventually,he defined the political nature as the nature of the technology and was the internal driving force for the autonomy technology to appear uncontrollable.Although Langdon Winner's technical and political ideas have some limitations,they are slightly duplicated in the distinction of technical politics,and the specific methods for proposing democratic control are not perfect,but this does not affect its value.Langdon Winner's technical and political ideas not only made a systematic and comprehensive study of the relationship between technology and politics for the first time in the history of philosophy of technology,but also further promoted the experience of American philosophy of technology.With Winner's political extension of other concrete technologies,he continued to refine the contents of his political ideology.This has given people a certain amount of enlightenment about the current control of human beings from technology control,the implementation of democratic control of technology,and the realization of human freedom.