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What do you mean with critical theory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
There are different forms but it's basically getting woke to class struggle between people who own shit and rent it out and people who get paid a bit to use the shit, but never actually get to own real shit or control what shit they decide to do.
I'm putting it pretty bluntly and pretty woke..ly, and a lil but Marxly. It's also about analyzing systems we use to organise ourselves and what they do to us. Basically how to get people to actually wake up to how and why things are how they are and maybe how they could be different / better.
In the context of STEM students who focus on inputs, outputs, and engines at the expense of considering societal impacts (or simply telling themselves it's the job of poor humanities students to get elected and pass laws to constrain the most egregious negative externalities of technology) it's asking who an efficiency is for. Efficiency cannot exist in a moral vacuum. As Kim Stanley Robinson summarized in The Ministry for the Future (2020):