This technology is simultaneously a tool, a medium, a cultural form, an epistemic instrument, and a site of value formation—much as Raymond Williams once described television , but with far less stability. You cannot slot it into a single sphere and manage it from the outside. Treating technology as a purely instrumental sphere that politics steers from outside is not just naĆÆve; it blinds us to where power now sits. This is very thought-provoking. Related Activists's actions against datacentres
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51