Technology and the Literary Imagination
STS.464 · Science, Technology, and Society · Graduate · Spring 2008
Prof. Leo Marx, Prof. Rosalind Williams
<p>Our linked subjects are (1) the historical process by which the meaning of <em>technology</em> has been constructed, and (2) the concurrent transformation of the environment. To explain the emergence of <em>technology</em> as a pivotal word (and concept) in contemporary public discourse, we will examine responses — chiefly political and literary — to the development of the mechanic arts, and to the linked social, cultural, and ecological transformation of 19th- and 20th-century American soci…
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