[Sigcrit-l] Fwd: Re: MIT press book announcement

[Ann Simonds]

I don't know if this has caught anyone's attention yet, but I
thought the following book announcement would be of interest to
list subscribers.

-Ann

> > >Modernity and Technology
> > >edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg
> > >
> > >Until recently there has been surprisingly little overlap between
> > >technology studies and modernity theory. The goal of this ambitious book
> > >is to lay the foundations for a new interdisciplinary field by closely
> > >examining the co-construction of technology and modernity.
> > >
> > >The book is divided into three parts. Part I lays the methodological
> > >groundwork for combining studies of technology and modernity, while
> > >integrating ideas drawn from feminism, critical theory, philosophy,
> > >sociology, and socioeconomics. Part II continues the methodological
> > >discussion, focusing on specific sociotechnical systems or technologies
> > >with prominent relations to modernity, such as the Internet,
> > >surveillance, infrastructures, and the western technologies adopted in
> > >China and Japan. Part III introduces practical and political issues by
> > >considering alternative modes of technology development and offering
> > >critiques of modern medicine, environmental technology, international
> > >development, and technology policy. The book as a whole suggests a broad
> > >research program that is both academic and applied and that will help us
> > >understand how contemporary societies can govern technologies instead of
> > >being governed by them.
> > >
> > >Thomas J. Misa is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute
> > >of Technology. Philip Brey is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the
> > >Department of Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.
> > >Andrew Feenberg is Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State
> > >University.
> > >
> > >Contributors
> > >Philip Brey, Paul N. Edwards, Andrew Feenberg, David Hess, Haider A.
> > >Khan, David Lyon, Barbara L. Marshall, Thomas J. Misa, Arthur P. J. Mol,
> > >Junichi Murata, Arie Rip, Johan Schot, Don Slater.
> > >
> > >6 x 9, 376 pp., cloth, ISBN 0-262-13421-7
> > >
> > >
> > >-
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> > >Please see the following URL for the LITSCI-L archive, Web resource
> > >links and unsubscribing info:
> > >http://www.law.duke.edu/sls
> > >