The Politics of Systems

This page lists some of the scholarly works on the politics of systems that I find crucial for any student of that matter.

Books

Agre, Philip E. (1997): Computation and Human Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Bowker, Geoffrey C. / Star, Susan Leigh (1999): Sorting Things Out : Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge MA, London: MIT Press

Brown, John Seeley / Duguid, Paul (2000): The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press

Ciborra, Claudio (2002): The Labyrinths of Information. Callenging the Wisdom of Systems. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press

Collins, Harry / Kusch, Martin (1998): The Shape of Actions. What Humans and Machines Can Do. Cambridge MA, London: MIT Press

Coyne, Richard (1995): Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age. Cambridge MA, London: MIT Press

de Certeau, Michel (1990): L’invention du quotidien. Tome I Arts de faire. Paris: Folio

Deleuze, Gilles (1986): Foucault. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit

Dennett, Ted (1989): The Intentional Stance. Cambridge MA, London: The MIT Press

Foucault, Michel (1966): Les mots et les choses. Paris: Gallimard

Giddens, Anthony (1990): The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press

Habermas, Jürgen (1969): Technik und Wissenschaft als ‘Ideologie’. Frankfurt a. Main: Suhrkamp

Heidegger, Martin (1949) : Die Technik und die Kehre. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta

Hutchins, Edwin (1995): Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge MA, London: MIT Press

Johnson, Steven (1997): Interface Culture. How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. New York: Basic Books

Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark (1980): Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Latour, Bruno (2005): Reassembling the Social. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press

Laurel, Brenda (1991): Computers as Theatre. Boston MA: Addison-Wesley

Lessig, Lawrence (1999): Code and other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books

Luhmann, Niklas (1995): Die Wirklichkeit der Massenmedien. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag

Lyotard, Jean-François (1979): La condition portmoderne. Paris: Editions de Minuit

Marcuse, Herbert (1964): One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston: Beacon Press

Norman, Donald A. (1998): The Design of Everyday Things. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press

Robert, Pascal (2005): La Logique politique des technologies de l’information et de la communication. Bordeaux: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux

Simondon, Gilbert (1958): Du mode d’existence des objets techniques. Paris: Editions Aubier

Virilio, Paul (1988): La machine de vision. Paris: Galilée

Weber, Steven (2004): The Success of Open Source. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press

Winner, Langdon (1986): The Whale and the Reactor. A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Pres

Winograd, Terry / Flores, Fernando (1986): Understanding Computers and Cognition. A New Foundation for Design. Boston: Addison-Wesley