Hubris and hybrids : a cultural history of technology and science

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Hubris and hybrids : a cultural history of technology and science

Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison

Routledge, 2005

  • : pbk.
  • : hardcover

Available at  / 6 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-325) and index

Contents of Works

  • The scientific reformation in early modern Europe
  • The industrial transformation
  • The sites of enlightenment and innovation
  • The machine in the mind
  • Technocrats and their critics
  • Eastern minds take on the Western juggernaut
  • Artistic appropriations from Morris to the matrix
  • Machines and knowledge in action
  • Mobility mania and its material manifestations
  • The cultural forms of communication and information
  • Public works, public health, and personal hygiene
  • Coping with technoscience
  • Making technoscience politically accountable
  • From appropriate technology to green business
  • Conclusion: history as cultural assessment

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