Critical technical practice

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Critical technical practice is critical theory based approach towards technological design proposed by Phil Agre where critical and cultural theories are brought to bear in the work of designers and engineers. One of the goals of critical technical practice is to increase awareness and critical reflection on the hidden assumptions, ideologies and values underlying technology design.

People whose work contributes to the critical technical practice agenda include Phil Agre, Paul Dourish, Natalie Jeremijenko, Michael Mateas, Simon Penny, Warren Sack, Garnet Hertz, and Phoebe Sengers.

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Toward a Critical Technical Practice by Phil Agre
Critical Technical Practices page by Phoebe Sengers

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Origins	Frankfurt School Freudo-Marxism

Concepts	Critical vocabulary Binary opposition Dominant privilege Phallogocentrism Reconstructivism

Derivatives	New Historicism Technocriticism Critical geography Critical geopolitics Critical management studies Critical psychology Critical legal studies Critical pedagogy Critical ethnography Critical Practice Critical medical anthropology Critical Language Awareness Critical international relations theory Critical criminology Critical design Critical cartography Critical applied linguistics Critical discourse analysis Critical historiography Critical psychiatry Critical social thought Critical technical practice Critical race theory Critical Security Studies Critical Terrorism Studies Archetypal literary criticism

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