Modernity and technology / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: ix, 421 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262134217
- 9780262134217
- 303.483 21
- T14.5 .M63 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-407) and index.
1. The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology / Thomas J. Misa -- 2. Theorizing Modernity and Technology / Philip Brey -- 3. Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap / Andrew Feenberg -- 4. Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies / Barbara L. Marshall -- 5. Modernity under Construction: Building the Internet in Trinidad / Don Slater -- 6. Surveillance Technology and Surveillance Society / David Lyon -- 7. Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems / Paul N. Edwards -- 8. Creativity of Technology: An Origin of Modernity? / Junichi Murata -- 9. The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics / Johan Schot -- 10. Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The Problem of Alternatives / David Hess -- 11. The Environmental Transformation of the Modern Order / Arthur P. J. Mol -- 12. Technology, Modernity, and Development: Creating Social Capabilities in a POLIS / Haider A. Khan -- 13. Modernity and Technology - An Afterword / Arie Rip.
If asked, people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and even that technology is a distinctive feature of modernity. This text aims to lay the foundations for an interdisciplinary field by examining the co- construction of technology and modernity.
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