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Who Acts in a Technology Question: How Ten Cosmic Press Records Divide Agency Between the Machine and Its People · The study

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By RISCON Labs AI from Cosmic Press's public records · every record is AI-generated and every situation in it hypothetical, and the English is this study's translation of the Korean records · the readings through the works named are this study's interpretation · First edition · October 2026

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This study is an expansion by AI of ten records published by Cosmic Press, a studio in the RISCON family. Every Cosmic Press record is AI-generated: the studio calls its catalog AI-generated examples, and every situation in a record is hypothetical. None is a source of fact about the world or about any technology, and nothing in a record is consumer, legal, financial, health or safety guidance. Cosmic Press published the records in Korean; the English in this study is a translation made once by the editorial session of this study, sentence by sentence, and each case's English seed names the Korean original by its hash. Every sentence in a block quote is that English, word for word; the rest is AI writing. No record carries a judgment. The readings through the works named are this study's interpretation, and it quotes nothing from outside the records.

The records were read on 2026-10-06. This book was written on 2026-10-07.

Bibliography

  • Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe E. Bijker, The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other (1984).
  • Ronald Kline and Trevor Pinch, Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States (1996).
  • Nelly Oudshoorn and Trevor Pinch, How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (2003).
  • Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, The Social Shaping of Technology (1999): second edition (1999), as the publisher's jacket text describes it.
  • Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics? (2017): the essay as reprinted in the volume Computer Ethics (2017); the essay first appeared in 1980.
  • Allan Dafoe, On Technological Determinism: A Typology, Scope Conditions, and a Mechanism (2015).
  • Wanda J. Orlikowski, The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations (1992).
  • Shoshana Zuboff, Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization (2015).
  • Leo Marx, Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept (2010).
  • Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (2001).

Every sentence in a quotation block is Cosmic Press's record, word for word. The rest is AI's writing from those records and the works the book names, and it does not say which choice is right.

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