ABSTRACT
Langdon Winner’s famous article, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” (1980), must be the first thing mentioned in any discussion of what philosophy of technology has contributed to our understanding of discrimination. The examples addressed, most of all the famous ‘racist bridges’ of Robert Moses—allegedly 1 built low in order to specifically exclude New York City buses, and the kind of person more likely to be using public transportation, from certain beaches—make clear that artifacts can be said at least to have political effects, including advancing racial discrimination.
