Modernity and Technology

Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, Andrew Feenberg9780262134217, 0-262-13421-7

Modernity and Technology is an exemplar of innovative, multidisciplinary scholarship. The book is bold yet accessible, and it takes on the big questions at the heart of both modernity theory and technology studies. The mix of social theory and empirical research makes it the most important contribution to technology studies of the past fifteen years.

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Table of contents :
@Team LiB……Page 0
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Acknowledgments……Page 8
Workshop Participants……Page 10
1
The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and
Technology……Page 13
I
Modernity Theory and Technology Studies……Page 43
2
Theorizing Modernity and Technology……Page 45
3
Modernity Theory and Technology Studies:
Reflections on Bridging the Gap……Page 85
4
Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and
Technology Studies……Page 117
II
Technologies of Modernity……Page 149
5
Modernity under Construction: Building the
Internet in Trinidad……Page 151
6
Surveillance Technology and Surveillance
Society……Page 173
7
Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time,
and Social Organization in the History of
Sociotechnical Systems……Page 197
8
Creativity of Technology: An Origin of
Modernity?……Page 239
III
Changing Modernist Regimes……Page 267
9
The Contested Rise of a Modernist
Technology Politics……Page 269
10
Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The
Problem of Alternatives……Page 291
11
The Environmental Transformation of the
Modern Order……Page 315
12
Technology, Modernity, and Development:
Creating Social Capabilities in a POLIS……Page 339
13
Modernity and Technology—An Afterword……Page 371
References……Page 385
About the Authors……Page 421
Index……Page 425