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

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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.ContributorsJanet Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht, Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund N. Todd, Hans WeinbergerOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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Cambridge : MIT Press,., 2001

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1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) :illustrations

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English

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9780262267038

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computer

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online resource

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Technology
Technology and state

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edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6679.001.0001

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