History of Science 288: History and Philosophy of Technology

- Separate Reading List MARX, MARXISM, TECHNOLOGY, HISTORY

Bober, M. Karl Marxs Interpretation of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1927.
Shaw, William. The Handmill gives you the Feudal Lord: Marxs Technological
Determinism. History and Theory 18 (1979), 155-166.
Rosenberg, Nathan. Marx as a Student of Technology. Monthly Review 28 (1976); 5677.
TECHNOLOGY AND THE ANNALES SCHOOL
Braudel, Fernand. The Wheels of Commerce. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th
Century. [3 vols.]. Translated Sin Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Bloch, Marc. The Historian's Craft. New York : Knopf, 1953.
Ginzburg, Carlo. The Cheese and the Worms: the Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Burke, Peter. The French Historical Revolution: the Annales School 1929-1989. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1983.
TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL
Alford, Fred. Science and the Revenge of Nature. Marcuse and Habermas. Gainesville:
University Presses of Florida, 1985.
Feenberg, Andrew. Critical Theory of Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
Habermas, Jrgen. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-Reading
Dialectic of Enlightenment. New German Critique, 26 (1981), pp. 13-30.
Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York:
Continuum, 1998 [original published in 1944].
Hoy, David Couzens and Thomas McCarthy. Critical Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994
Marcuse, Herbert. Industrialization and Capitalism in the Work of Max Weber, in
Negations: Essays in Critical Theory by H. Marcuse, Boston: Beacon Press 1968.
McCarthy, Thomas. The Critical Theory of Jrgen Habermas. Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press, 1978.
Vogel, Steven. Against Nature. The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory. Albany: State
University Of New York Press, 1996.
Whitebook, Joel. The Problem of Nature in Habermas. Telos, 40 (1979), pp. 41-69.
NEW MEDIA THEORY AND HISTORY
Hansen, Mark B. N. New Philosophy for New Media. MIT Press, 2004
Downing, John D. H. et al, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies. SAGE
Publications, 2004.
Chun, Wendy and Thomas Keenan. New Media, Old Media. A History and Theory
Reader. Routledge, 2006.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Control and Freedom. Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber
Optics. MIT Press, 2006.
Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. MIT Press 1999.

PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
Robert Scharff, Val Dusek, eds. Philosophy of Technology. The Technological Condition.
An Anthology. Blackwell, 2003.
Ferr, Frederick. Philosophy of Technology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.
Mitcham, Carl and Robert Macke, ed. Philosophy and Technology: Readings in the
Philosophical Problems of Technology. New York: Free Press, 1983.
Kaplan, David ed. Readings in the Philosophy of Technology. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
Ihde, Don. Instrumental Realism. The Interface between Philosophy of Science and
Philosophy of Technology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
FEMINIST TECHNOLOGY STUDIES/ WOMENS HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in
the Late Twentieth Century, in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.
Barbara Marshall. Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies. In
Thomas Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg, eds. Modernity and
Technology, 105-138.
Rosalind Williams. The Political and Feminist Dimensions of Technological
Determinism, in Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx, ed. Does Technology Drive
History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, 217-236.
Judy Wajcman, ed. Feminism confronts Technology. Penn State Press 1991.
Horowitz, Roger and Arwen Mohun, eds. His and Hers: Gender, Consumption, and
Technology. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1998.
TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNTIY
M. Hrd and A. Jamison. The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology. Discourses on
Modernity 1900-1939. MIT Press 1998.
F. Kittler. Discourse Networks 1800/1900. Stanford UP 1990.
Jeffrey Herf. Reactionary Modernism. Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the
Third Reich. Cambridge UP 1984.
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer. MIT Press, 1990.
Forman, Paul. The Primacy of Science in Mondernity, of Technology in Postmodernity,
and of Ideology in the History of Technology. History and Technology 23 (2007)
(special issue).
Rabinbach, Anson. The Human Motor. Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. Los
Angeles: University of California Press 1992.
Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
1993.
CULTURAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America.
London: Oxford University Press 1964.
Hrd, Mikael and Andrew Jamison. Hubris and Hybrids. A Cultural History of
Technology and Science. Routledge, 2005.
Nye, David. America as Second Creation. Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 2003.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Railway Journey. The Industrialization of Time and Space in the
19th Century. UC Berkeley Press, 1977.
Burke, Peter. What is Cultural History? Polity Press, 2004.

Hughes, Thomas P. Human-Built World. How to think about Technology and Culture.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Meikle, Jeffrey. American Plastic: A Cultural History. New Brunswick, NJ: 1997.
Nye, David. American Technological Sublime. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class. London, 1963.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Industry and Empire. from 1750 to the Present Day. London: Penguin,
[1969].
Berg, Maxine. The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy. Cambridge
UP, 1980
Kriedte, Peter and Hans Medick and Jrgen Schlumbohm. Industrialization before
Industrialization. Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Musson, A. E. and Eric Robinson. Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution.
New York: Gordon and Breach, 1969.
Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches. Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford
UP 1990.
Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambridge; New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
TECHNOLOGY IN THE MODERN WEST
Hughes, Thomas O. Networks of Power. Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Nye, David E. Electrifying America. Social Meanings of a New Technology. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 1990.
Misa, Thomas. A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925. Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Hounshell, David A. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932 : the
Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore : Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Alder, Ken. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or, the Love of Technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1996.
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE STUDIES
Bijker, Wiebe and Trevor Pinch. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New
Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1987.
Pickering, Andrew. The Mangle of Practice. Time, Agency, and Science. Chicago, Chicago
University Press, 1995.
Rheinberger, Hans-Jrg. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in
the Test Tube. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Knorr-Cetina, Karin. Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge,
Ma : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Galison, Peter and Emily Thompson, eds. The Architecture of Science. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press, 1999.
Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self. Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1984.
Turkle, Sherry, ed. Evocative Objects: Things we Think with. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2007.

Daston, Lorraine, ed. Things that Talk. Object Lessons from Art and Science. New York:
Zone Books, 2004.
TECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGY/MEDICINE
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature.
New York: Routledge, 1991.
Haraway, Donna Jeanne. Modest Witness: Feminism and Technoscience. New York :
Routledge, 1997.
Landecker, Hannah. Culturing Life. How Cells became Technologies. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2007.
Jain, Sarah Lochlann. Injury. The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United
States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Parthasarathy, Shobita. Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the
Comparative Politics of Health Care. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, 2007.
Reardon, Jenny. Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005.
THE COMPUTER
Kelty, Christopher M. Two Bits: the Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2008.
Ensmenger, Nathan. The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the
Politics of Technical Expertise. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010.
Agar, Jon. The Government Machine: a Revolutionary History of the Computer.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003.
Edwards, Paul. The Closed World. Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War
America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.