Cultures of control
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Cultures of control
（Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine / edited by John Krige, v. 9）
Routledge, 2004, c2000
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Originally published: Amsterdam : Harwood, 1996
Reprinted and transferred to digital printing in 2004 by Routledge
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the contradictory moral, political, and economic consequences they have had. The discussion takes into account the important modes in which humans have cast their organizational efforts: political, social, sychological, economic, and legal. It also takes a longue duree view of the history of control, looking back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and establishes the continuities in the twentieth century as a transatlantic phenomenon.
Table of Contents
List of Figures, Preface, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of Control, Part 2: Managing Machines, Index
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