Our everyday life is entangled with products and services of so-called Big Tech companies, such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. International relations (IR) scholars increasingly seek to reflect on the relationships between Big Tech, capitalism, and institutionalized politics, and they engage with the practices of algorithmic governance and platformization that shape and are shaped by Big Tech. This collective discussion advances these emerging debates by approaching Big Tech transversally, meaning that we problematize Big Tech as an object of study and raise a range of fundamental questions about its politics. The contributions demonstrate how a transversal perspective that cuts across sociomaterial, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries and framings opens up the study of the politics of Big Tech. The discussion brings to the fore perspectives on the ontologies of Big Tech, the politics of the aesthetics and credibility of Big Tech and rethinks the concepts of legitimacy and responsibility. The article thereby provides several inroads for how IR and international political sociology can leverage their analytical engagement with Big Tech and nurture imaginaries of alternative and subversive technopolitical futures.

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大科技的横向政治

我们的日常生活与亚马逊、谷歌和 Facebook 等所谓的大型科技公司的产品和服务纠缠在一起。国际关系 (IR) 学者越来越多地寻求反思大型科技、资本主义和制度化政治之间的关系，他们参与塑造大型科技并被大型科技塑造的算法治理和平台化实践。这种集体讨论通过横向接近大型科技公司推进了这些新兴辩论，这意味着我们将大型科技公司问题化为研究对象，并提出了一系列关于其政治的基本问题。这些贡献展示了跨越社会物质、制度和学科界限和框架的横向视角如何开启对大科技政治的研究。讨论突出了对大型科技本体论、美学政治和大型科技可信度的观点，并重新思考了合法性和责任的概念。因此，这篇文章提供了一些关于 IR 和国际政治社会学如何利用他们对 Big Tech 的分析参与以及培养对替代和颠覆性技术政治未来的想象的一些进展。