” Thirty six years ago, Langdon Winner famously asked the question: “do artifacts have politics?”. However, the broader concern about technology, its course and nature began much earlier. Not only with Martin Heidegger’s well-known essay on “The question concerning Technology” (1955), but already from the publication of modernity’s emblematic work, Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620). The “Politics of Technologies in the Digital Age: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” series of international symposiums, aims at exploring various perspectives of the above mentioned issues from interdisciplinary standpoints. ”