We are limited by mortality, illness and impediments set by the physical world. Technology is one response to this antinomical situation.

Hegemony is secured through a strategic politics aimed at prestructuring social practices in line with the interests of one's one group.

Defined merely as the capacity to affect others, power is an anodyne concept, lacking sufficient purchase to single out significant instances as important.

the interpretation of a technology is a matter of hermeneutics--we have to find out what the technology means to its users if we are to understand it

A person described as "mad" is constructed through interpellation by psychiatric discourse and clinical practice.

institutions and practices that have been reified [...] so that they seem to be constants of human existence, beyond the reach of reform through intentional human action

These expectations in as sense define what the PC has become--its reified form--so that we forget that each item on the list was the outcome of a choice and that other possibilities were neglected in the process.