DÜNYA SİYASETİNDE TEKNOLOJİYİ YENİDEN DÜŞÜNMEK: BİLİM-TEKNOLOJİ-TOPLUM PERSPEKTİFİNDEN ALTERNATİF BİR OKUMA
RETHINKING TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD POLITICS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY - SOCIETY STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: The paradox pertaining to technology in world politics in the discipline of International Relations constitutes the departure point for this article: technology as a phenomenon that was always talked about without actually being thought about. Although technology is regularly invoked, discussions about it are marked by technological determinism, whereby technology gets reduced to machines and objects and is never really investigated. Taking my departure point this absent-presence of technology, I provide an alternative reading of technology by attending to the insights provided by Science, Technology, Society (STS) studies. I elaborate the ontological and epistemological underpinnings and implications of approaching technology as a socio-technical phenomenon from the perspective of STS. In this regard, I argue that an STS perspective on technology in world politics reveals the extent to which technology is not merely an instrument in world politics, but that it is in itself political thorough and thorough, and that it allows for important openings for studying technology in world politics.

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