proxies_mulvin.md

title	authors	external_url	source_url	drive_links	status	course	tags	year	olid	publisher	pages
Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In	Dylan Mulvin	https://direct.mit.edu/books/book-pdf/2254885/book_9780262366243.pdf	https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11765.001.0001	https://drive.google.com/file/d/13BPhePo89NFiSdEfXfa72ha_gm58_S7Z/view?usp=drivesdk	featured	philosophy-of-science	infrastructure mythology power	2021	OL34767075M	mit	200

Proxies function as the necessary forms of make-believe and surrogacy that enable the production of knowledge. Such knowledge production relies on accessible representations of the world, and proxies are the people, artifacts, places, and moments invested with the authority to represent the world. To interrogate the use of proxies is to ask: to whom or to what do we delegate the power to represent the world?

Proxies are instrumental to developing 'group-licensed ways of seeing,' and they are crucial to the ways we learn how to participate in our communities by training ourselves through common references, by coming to see problems as akin, and by taking for granted that others in our community share those references and those ways of seeing.