Technological Humanities
Description
This book explores how histories of technology, engineering, and information science can help us better understand history, while also informing how we envision and build more equitable futures. The chapters extend vibrant conversations in the history of technology as well as other fields, including science and technology studies (STS), cybernetic studies, literary studies, development studies, discard studies, engineering ethics, and infrastructure studies. In doing so the authors pay tribute to Ronald R. Kline, one of the leading historians of technology and STS scholars of our era. This book showcases cutting-edge research around the state of technology studies today and its influences across and beyond academic fields.
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Persons
Jennifer L. Lieberman is Associate Dean of Humanities, Mathematics, and Social Sciences at the Community College of Allegheny County, USA.
Anto Mohsin is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies in the Liberal Arts Program at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Content
Chapter 1. Critical Humanism Confronts Technology - Jennifer L. Lieberman and Anto Mohsin.- Chapter 2. Generative Discursive "Disunity": Nobert Wiener's Disciplinary Agility as Contemporary Rhetorical Toolkit - Heather A. Love.- Chapter 3. The Strange Story of Automotive Collabs and Oil Embargos - Rayvon Fouché.- Chapter 4. Accommodating urban micromobility innovations - Clinton J. Andrews and Lina Moe.- Chapter 5Consumers at the Coastline: The Camping Tent as Deviant Technology in Twenty-first-century Los Angeles - Christina Dunbar-Hester.- Chapter 6. Developing Dispossession: Retrofitting Settler-Colonialism at the Huntly Power Station - Nathan Kapoor and Suzanne Moon.- Chapter 7. Manufacturing Plus: Sociotechnical Imaginaries, Interpretive Flexibility, and the Ascent of Taiwan's Pure-Play Foundry Model - Ling-Fei Lin.- Chapter 8. Teaching the History of Emerging Technologies in an Information Age - Honghong Tinn.- Chapter 9. Science Outside the Lab: Ethics Training through Science Policy Immersion - Jameson Wetmore.- Chapter 10. Teaching and Learning Technology through Stories: A Conversation with Ronald R. Kline.