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Weak Technologies

Name: Weak Technologies
Brand: Polity Press
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By: Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

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Paperback | 12 November 2026 | Edition Number 1

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Weak Technologies challenges one of the great myths of our time: that technology is powerful. We are constantly told that tools, technologies and especially Artificial Intelligence expand our reach, overcome our limits and make us stronger. But this book proposes the opposite. Technologies are valuable not because they succeed but because they fail â" because they glitch, deviate, surprise, and refuse to obey faithfully the intentions of their designers and users.

The fascination with "powerful" technology rests on a fantasy of mastery: that human weaknesses can be overcome by machines. Yet every technology, from a screwdriver to a neural network, reveals itself to be interesting only when it does something unexpected: weakness, such as inconsistency, malfunction and improvisation, is where invention emerges. Technologies are not solutions to problems: they are problems, calling for new acts of imagination.

This book invites us to abandon the dream of seamless efficiency and instead to embrace experimentation and play. To use technology well is not to control it but to explore what else it can do. Weak Technologies proposes nothing less than an artistic education in technological life, a way of creating with machines, not commanding them. It is a manifesto for an experimental, curious, and genuinely inventive technological culture.

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