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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454889703321

Titolo

Modernity and technology [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-09968-X

0-262-27993-2

9780585446768

9786612099687

0-585-44676-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MisaThomas J

BreyPhilip

FeenbergAndrew

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-407) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents ; Acknowledgments; Workshop Participants; 1 - The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology ; I - Modernity Theory and Technology Studies; 2 - Theorizing Modernity and Technology; 3 - Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap; 4 - Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies ; II - Technologies of Modernity ; 5 - Modernity under Construction: Building the Internet in Trinidad ; 6 - Surveillance Technology and Surveillance Society

7 - Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems 8 - Creativity of Technology: An Origin of Modernity?; III - Changing Modernist Regimes ; 9 - The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics ; 10 - Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The Problem of Alternatives ; 11 - The Environmental Transformation of the Modern Order ; 12 - Technology, Modernity, and Development: Creating Social Capabilities in a POLIS ; 13 - Modernity and Technology-An Afterword; References ; About the



Authors ; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Studies of the co-construction of technology and modernity that lay the foundation for a new, interdisciplinary field.