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portada Weak Technologies
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
Theory Redux
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
152
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781509572878

Weak Technologies

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Author) · Polity · Hardcover

Weak Technologies - Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

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Synopsis "Weak Technologies"

Weak Technologies challenges one of the great myths of our time: that technology is powerful. We are constantly told that tools, technologies and especially Artificial Intelligence expand our reach, overcome our limits and make us stronger. But this book proposes the opposite. Technologies are valuable not because they succeed but because they fail – because they glitch, deviate, surprise, and refuse to obey faithfully the intentions of their designers and users.

The fascination with "powerful" technology rests on a fantasy of mastery: that human weaknesses can be overcome by machines. Yet every technology, from a screwdriver to a neural network, reveals itself to be interesting only when it does something unexpected: weakness, such as inconsistency, malfunction and improvisation, is where invention emerges. Technologies are not solutions to problems: they are problems, calling for new acts of imagination.

This book invites us to abandon the dream of seamless efficiency and instead to embrace experimentation and play. To use technology well is not to control it but to explore what else it can do. Weak Technologies proposes nothing less than an artistic education in technological life, a way of creating with machines, not commanding them. It is a manifesto for an experimental, curious, and genuinely inventive technological culture.

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