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sociology-of-technology

6 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 2 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  normal accident
  essay drafting 2026-09-13 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, ai-infrastructure, power-grid, sociology-of-technology

Everything else

• Does John Law's 1987 paper itself (or a citation record) confirm he coined "heterogeneous engineering"?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-14 · heterogeneous-engineering, john-law, donald-mackenzie, sociology-of-technology, priority-attribution
• Charles Perrow's 1984 'Normal Accident Theory' — reached via a misattributed sociology-of-technology hook — is the unnamed framework already latent in the vault's own AI-power-grid attack claim
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, sociology-of-technology, normal-accident-theory, ai-safety
• "Heterogeneous engineering" was coined by sociologist John Law in 1987, not by Donald MacKenzie
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · heterogeneous-engineering, john-law, donald-mackenzie, sociology-of-technology, priority-attribution
• John Law's 2011 essay applies Perrow's Normal Accident Theory to explain both the Fukushima meltdown and the UK's 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic as heterogeneous-system failures
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · heterogeneous-engineering, john-law, charles-perrow, normal-accident-theory, fukushima
• Perrow's 1984 Normal Accident Theory holds that any system combining tight coupling with complex interactivity will inevitably produce catastrophic accidents
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, sociology-of-technology, tight-coupling, ai-safety