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Théo Bourgeron

"To make systems virtual is a tour de force of material configuration" - Donald MacKenzie, in his interview w/ @Cosmos

A wonderful interview about his "material #PoliticalEconomy" of online advertising, his relationship to #Marxism, the #Bourdieu-#Latour clash, how "fields" and "social spaces" can take very material meanings... With plenty of interesting theoretical insights

https://www.skape.ed.ac.uk/to-make-systems-virtual-is-a-tour-de-force-of-material-configuration-an-interview-with-professor-donald-mackenzie/

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“To make systems virtual is a tour de force of material configuration”: An interview with Professor Donald MacKenzie – SKAPE

Nov 22, 2022 at 9:14amWeb
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(Here, the picture of one of these tours de force: the cooling tower of a Google datacentre in The Dalle, Oregon)

An interview to read, not only because Donald has received the Leonardo da Vinci medal for his exceptional scholarship on technology from the Society for the History of #Technology last week...

But also because it gives a first glimpse of Donald's fascinating forthcoming work on the #MaterialPoliticalEconomy of online advertising.

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An interview by @Cosmos for the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Policy (SKAPE) of the University of Edinburgh - with the editorial contribution of SKAPE colleagues Sofie Jaeger, Nathan Coombs, Eugenia Rodrigues!