How Technologies Harm: A Relational Approach

Criminal Law

How Technologies Harm: A Relational Approach

By Mark Wood
Bristol University Press October 2025

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ISBN-13
9781529247077
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Publication
October 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves?

This book offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building on insights from postphenomenology, realist social theory and the philosophy of action, it provides a framework for examining technology-harm relations: relations with technology that are harmful by virtue of what they contribute to bringing about. It is for anyone seeking to design, regulate, research or simply use technology in a way that prioritizes well-being.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Understanding Harm
1. What Is Social Harm?
2. The Nature of Harm

Part 2: Understanding Technology
3. Instruments, Extensions, Affordances
4. Technology As Practice and Actant
5. Postphenomenology and Technological Mediation

Part 3: The Technology-Harm Relations Framework
6. An Overview of the Framework
7. Design Modes
8. Translation, Infusion, Zemiosis
9. Doing Harm With Things
10. Harms Beyond Use
11. Higher-Order Harm Relations

Conclusion: Pulling at the Threads of Enmeshment
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