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️✨New theoretical argument regarding 'responsible engineering' out today!✨ doi.org/10.1080/1937... ️I ask:❔How is it possible for engineers to both be ethical & responsible (according to their codes of ethics) AND ALSO be agents of violence? ❔(1/7) #AcademicSky #STS #Anthropology

doi.orgClass, Critique, and Containment: Arcs of Historical Change in Australian Engineering Ethics CodesParticipation in national professional associations is a common strategy for self-distinction. Since 1919, some Australian engineers have joined a national association, affirming agreement to align...

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"Although I originally looked at the codes to see how [they] would address and manage technological harms, in practice I found them more able to speak to questions of behavior and hierarchy—thereby making the entire space of the ethical into itself a resource for class politics." (2/7)

"I contend that these codes reflect and enact the production of a category of person: one who performs an elevated class status by standing in solidarity with peers rather than critiquing their projects in public [...]" (3/7)

but this is what it looks like for me in practice to (1) use class analytics and social reproduction theory within empirical cultural research; and (2) be simultaneously accountable, in my work, to people who are not 'winning' under today's rules for workplace excellence, as to people who are. (5/7)