In this seminar we discuss role, which technology and infrastructure play in ordering practices. We try to clarify the concepts offered by different authors and pay particular attention to distinctions between apparatus (Foucault), assemblage (Deleuze and Guattari), infrastructure (Hughes), and institution (Weber). This debate is politically important since the most burning contemporary matters of concern – climate change, global health, global hunger, and increasing inequalities – are closely related to techno-scientific problems and solution and to infrastructures.
Recommended Reading: Hughes, Thomas 1983. Networks of power. Electrification in Western society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.
