Door: ROBERT DORSCHEL
“The chapters … offer a rich account of the underlying subjectivation processes that undergird this self. It will become clear throughout that the engineers and designers of our digital world are not merely a passive entourage in thrall to the visions of tech entrepreneurs. Recognizing their agency and their worldviews is the first step to mutual understanding, potentially enabling collaborations and coalitions between this class fraction and various stakeholders, including other groups of workers, unions, political parties, community initiatives, NGOs, educational institutions, and informed citizens. At the same time, this study does not present a naïve celebration of tech workers as progressive actors. Reading their codes in the context of theories of power surfaces many ambivalences, including covert strategies and a tendency to retreat to individualist responses to structural issues.”
