Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes

ISBN-10: 026251124X
ISBN-13: 9780262511247
Category: Science
Pages: 339
Language: English
Published: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Authors: Gabrielle Hecht, Michael Thad Allen

Description

This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new directions for science and technology studies.The essays were written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue. Contributors Janet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans Weinberger

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Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects
- 1990
- 265 pages
- Paperback
- Ablex Pub.

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