Week 2: Conceptualizing Technology (Jan 31st)



Readings for today:
  • Leo Marx, "Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept," Social Research, Vol. 64 (1997): 965–88.
  • Paul E. Ceruzzi, “A Large Canvas," in Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell Jr., eds., Technology in Western Civilization. (NOTE: this article looks at the emergence of the "History of Technology" as an academic discipline and field of inquiry). 
  • Langdon Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?," Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136.
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