Readings for today:
- David E. Nye, "The Factory: From the Pastoral Mill to the Industrial Sublime," in American Technological Sublime (MIT Press: 1996), pp. 109-142.
- Lewis Mumford, "The Monastary and the Clock," in Technics and Civilization (Routledge & Kegan: 1934), pp. 12-18.
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch, "Railroad Space and Railroad Time," in The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space.
- James Carey, "Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph," in New Media Reader.
- E.P. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," Past and Present, No. 38 (Dec., 1967), pp. 56-97.
- Wolfgang Schivelbusch, "The Space of Glass Architecture," in The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space.
- Thomas Pynchon, “Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?” New York Times Book Review, October 28, 1984.
- Charlie Chaplin's view of industrialization.
- Industrialization at its tastiest: the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Machine
