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<p>Critical reflection on the material, environmental, and social conditions underlying technology remains peripheral to the field of technology ethics. In this commentary, I underwrite the diagnosis by Vandemeulebroucke et al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR18">2025</CitationRef>) that the field suffers from an “extractivist blindspot”, but propose a somewhat different cure. First, rather than focusing on the material ontogenesis of technical artefacts, a more radical turn away from artefacts is called for, towards layered socio-technical systems as the field’s core object of analysis. Second, notwithstanding the merits of their intercultural proposal, I argue that in overcoming extractivism the conceptual resources of more adjacent philosophical traditions should not be overlooked.</p>

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Vertical Technologies and Relational Values: Rethinking Ethics of Technology in an Age of Extractivism

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    2025年8月30日

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  • Jeroen Hopster

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Critical reflection on the material, environmental, and social conditions underlying technology remains peripheral to the field of technology ethics. In this commentary, I underwrite the diagnosis by Vandemeulebroucke et al. (2025) that the field suffers from an “extractivist blindspot”, but propose a somewhat different cure. First, rather than focusing on the material ontogenesis of technical artefacts, a more radical turn away from artefacts is called for, towards layered socio-technical systems as the field’s core object of analysis. Second, notwithstanding the merits of their intercultural proposal, I argue that in overcoming extractivism the conceptual resources of more adjacent philosophical traditions should not be overlooked.