Breaking the myth of neutrality: Technology Assessment has politics, Technology Assessment as politics
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.06.026
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Myth of neutrality; Politics of TA; Constitutive outside; Political identities; Pluralistic agonism; TA futures;All these keywords.
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