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.

For further reading & research:

• Raymond Williams, "The Technology and the Society" in Television: Technology and Cultural Form, pp. 1-25.
• Caroll Pursell, "Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production," Technology and Culture 41:3, 2010.
• Langdon Winner, "The Gloves Come off: Shattered Alliances in Science and Technology Studies," Social Text, No. 46/47, Science Wars (Spring - Summer, 1996), pp. 81-91.
• Donald MacKenzie, "Marx and the Machine," Technology and Culture, Vol. 25, No. 3. (Jul., 1984), pp. 473-502.
• George Saliba lecture: “Arabic Islamic Science and the making of the Renaissance.”
• Lewis Mumford, “Cultural Preparation,” Technics and Civilization, 9-59. 
• Jacques Ellul, The Technological System.