Category Archives: history
Alison Landsberg – Prosthetic Memory
Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory, Columbia UP, 2004. Are memories – whether they are personal or public – transferable, implantable, or purchasable? Landsberg argues that with the advent of new (mass) technologies like cinema memory can be massively distributed through the
Alison Landsberg – Prosthetic Memory
Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory, Columbia UP, 2004. Are memories – whether they are personal or public – transferable, implantable, or purchasable? Landsberg argues that with the advent of new (mass) technologies like cinema memory can be massively distributed through the
Paul Connerton – How Societies Remember
Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember, Cambridge UP, 1989. Connerton’s main question in this book is “how the memory of groups” is “conveyed and sustained”(1) which can be explained in the dimension of both political power and psychological mechanism. For him,
Paul Connerton – How Societies Remember
Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember, Cambridge UP, 1989. Connerton’s main question in this book is “how the memory of groups” is “conveyed and sustained”(1) which can be explained in the dimension of both political power and psychological mechanism. For him,
Bruno Latour – The Pasteurization of France
Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, Harvard UP, 1988. What can we write on (the history of) invisible microbes? Maybe we can write on how the medical and biological sciences could have dominated and controlled the diseases and the bacteria.
Bruno Latour – The Pasteurization of France
Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, Harvard UP, 1988. What can we write on (the history of) invisible microbes? Maybe we can write on how the medical and biological sciences could have dominated and controlled the diseases and the bacteria.
Social Construction of Technological System
The Social Construction of Technological System: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Ed. Wiebe Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1987. What is the social constructivism of science and technology? The
Social Construction of Technological System
The Social Construction of Technological System: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Ed. Wiebe Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1987. What is the social constructivism of science and technology? The
The Long and Winding Road: From Road and Rail to Information Superhighway
What can we draw as common issues from Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:1794-2000 and John Thompson’s “The Media and Modernity” and “The Globalization of Communication”? At first glance, they seem to deal with the history of globalized communication
The Long and Winding Road: From Road and Rail to Information Superhighway
What can we draw as common issues from Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:1794-2000 and John Thompson’s “The Media and Modernity” and “The Globalization of Communication”? At first glance, they seem to deal with the history of globalized communication
Mary L. Dudziak – September 11 in History
Mary L. Dudziak ed., September 11 in History, Duke Univ. Press, 2003. This book begins from the assumption that the tragic event of September 11, 2001 was a watershed moment in US and world history. It focuses on the transformative
Mary L. Dudziak – September 11 in History
Mary L. Dudziak ed., September 11 in History, Duke Univ. Press, 2003. This book begins from the assumption that the tragic event of September 11, 2001 was a watershed moment in US and world history. It focuses on the transformative
Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, U of Chicago Press, 1962 (1996). In this small but influential book, Kuhn tries to perform two tasks at the same time: writing a history of science and making a theory on
Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, U of Chicago Press, 1962 (1996). In this small but influential book, Kuhn tries to perform two tasks at the same time: writing a history of science and making a theory on
