Daniel R. McCarthy is Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are International Relations Theory, Science and Technology Studies, American Foreign Policy and the politics of transparency.

1 Introduction: Technology and World Politics

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2 The Social Construction of Technology: How Objects Acquire Meaning in International Society

[Mary Manjikian]

3 Actor Network Theory: Objects and Actants, Networks and Narratives

[Christian Bueger and Jan Stockbruegger]

4 Critical Theory of Technology: Design, Domination and Democracy

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5 New Materialisms and International Relations: Bodies, Brains and Complex Causality

[Nick Srnicek]

6 Nuclear Technoaesthetics: Sensory Politics from Trinity to the Virtual Bomb in Los Alamos

[Joseph P. Masco]

7 The Global Politics of Internet Governance: A case study in closure and technological design

[Monroe Price]

8 The Infrastructure of the Global Economy: The Shipping Container as a Political Artefact

[Alejandro Colas]

9 A Revolution in Military Affairs? Changing Technologies and Changing Practices of Warfare

[Antoine Bousquet]

10 Extra-Terrestrial Politics: The Politics of Technology in Space

[Columba Peoples]

11 The Geopolitics of Extinction: From the Anthropocene to the Eurocene

[Jairus Victor Grove]

12 Conclusion: Technology and International Relations Theory: The End of the beginning

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