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Introduction: Looking Forward to Boston in the Year 2000 from the Year 1887 |
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Theories of Technology and Culture |
Malinowski, Bronislaw. Magic, Science and Religion. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1948, pp. 17-35. ISBN: 0881336572.
Gusterson, Hugh. "Nuclear Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual." In Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. Edited by Laura Nader. New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 131-147. ISBN: 0415914647.
Marx, Karl. 1867. "The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret." In Capital. Vol 1. Translated by Ben Fowkes. London: Penguin, 1976, pp. 163-177. ISBN: 0140445684.
Film Excerpt
The Matrix |
| Theme 1: Biology and Biotechnology |
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Technologies of Sex and Gender: Reproduction and Birth |
Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. 3rd ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 (first edition 1987). ISBN: 0807046450.
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The Handmaid's Tale |
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Technologies of Race: Medical Experimentation |
Kapsalis, Terri. "Mastering the Female Pelvis: Race and the Tools of Reproduction." In Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 31-59. ISBN: 0822319284.
Jones, James. "The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: 'A Moral Astigmatism'." In The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 275-286. ISBN: 0253326931.
Landecker, Hannah. "Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line." In Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics. Edited by Paul Brodwin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, pp. 53-72. ISBN: 0253214289.
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The Deadly Deception |
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Technologies of Death: Radiation |
Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0691090181.
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Containment |
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Genetically Modified Food |
Massey, Adrianne. "Crops, Genes, and Evolution." Gastonomica (Summer 2001): 20-29.
Wynne, Brian. "Creating Public Alienation: Expert Cultures of Risk and Ethics on GMOs." Science as Culture 10, no. 4 (2001): 445-481.
Haraway, Donna. "Mice Into Wormholes: A Technoscience Fugue in Two Parts." In Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_ Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 55-63, and 79-94. ISBN: 041591244X.
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Stolen Harvest |
| Theme 2: Computers and Information Technologies |
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Our Machines, Ourselves: Computers, Subjectivity, Politics |
Edwards, Paul N. "The Army and the Microworld: Computers and the Politics of Gender Identity." Signs 16, no. 1 (1990): 102-127.
Forsythe, Diana E. "Engineering Knowledge: The Construction of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence." In Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 35-58. ISBN: 0804741417.
Pfaffenberger, Bryan. "The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution." Anthropological Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1988): 39-47.
Helmreich, Stefan. "Artificial Life, Inc.: Darwin and Commodity Fetishism from Santa Fe to Silicon Valley." Science as Culture 10, no. 4 (2001): 483-504.
Film Excerpts
2001, AI |
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Simulating Life In Silico: Silicon Second Nature |
Helmreich, Stefan. Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. Updated edition with a new preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520207998.
Film Excerpt
Jurassic Park |
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Our Machines, Our Music: From White Noise to Black Noise |
Pinch, Trevor, and Frank Trocco. "Sculpting Sound," "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and "Shaping the Synthesizer." Introduction, chapter 1, and 3 in Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 1-31, and 53-69. ISBN: 0674008898.
Rose, Tricia. "Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music." In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, MA: Wesleyan University Press, 1994, pp. 62-96. ISBN: 0819552712.
Williams, Ben. "Black Secret Technology: Detroit Techno and the Information Age." In Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. Edited by Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh N. Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines. New York: NYU Press, 2001, pp. 154-176. ISBN: 0814736033.
Film Excerpt
Scratch |
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Internet Infrastructure |
Edwards, Paul. "Y2K: Millennial Reflections on Computers as Infrastructure." History and Technology 15 (1998): 7-29.
Stephenson, Neal. "Mother Earth Mother Board: The Hacker Tourist Ventures Forth across the Wide and Wondrous Meatspace of Three Continents. Chronicling the Laying of the Longest Wire on Earth." WIRED 4, no. 12 (1996): 97-160.
Sundaram, Ravi. Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India. 2001.
Kumar, Amitava. "Temporary Access: The Indian H-1B Worker in the United States." In Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. Edited by Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh N. Tu,and Alicia Headlam Hines. New York: NYU Press, 2001, pp. 76-87. ISBN: 0814736033. |
| Theme 3: Technological Infrastructure and Social Forms |
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Trains |
Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or The Love of Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0674043235. |
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Networking the Ocean |
Crawford, T. Hugh. "Networking the (Non) Human: Moby-Dick, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Bruno Latour." Configurations 5, no. 1 (1997): 1-21.
Höhler, Sabine. "Floating Pieces, Deep Sea, Full Measure: Spatial Relations in Oceanography as a 'Field Science'." Unpublished Paper. Presented at the meetings of the Society for the Social Study of Science, Cambridge, MA, 2001.
Hamilton-Patterson, James. "Charts and Naming." In The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds. New York: Henry Holt, 1992, pp. 9-46. ISBN: 0091745012. |
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Nanotechnology |
Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer . New York: Bantam Books, 1995. ISBN: 0553096095. |
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