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What technology policy? Whose technology policy? Hegemony of Runaway Technology Policy??!!

Power, Policy and Samkhya Philosophy

Dipak Gyawali

Us Vs Them

+ve Group T A B O O M A N A G E C O P E C O M M O D I T I Z E

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Group

FATALISM HIERARCHISM INDIVIDUALISM EGALITARIANISM Risk Taking: Substantive Rationality Risk Avoiding: Critical Rationality Risk Minimizing: Procedural Rationality Risk Absorbing: Coping Rationality

Unfettered Competition: Weak Group Cohesion Fettered Competition: Strong Group Cohesion

+ve Grid Asymmetrical Transactions: Strong Ascribed Order

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Symmetrical Transactions: Weak Ascribed Order

Hierarchism: Coercive Power (Tamasik), Strategy of Codes and Procedures PUBLIC

WATER Individualism: Persuasive Power (Rajasik), Strategy of Networking Freedom PRIVATE WATER Egalitarianism: Moral Power (Satwik), Strategy of Critique COMMON POOL WATER