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Science and democracy
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ISBN: 9781529222159 152922215X 9781529222135 9781529222142 1529222176 Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol Bristol University Press

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This accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies. Putting forward the thesis that science and democracy share important characteristics, it shows how authority cannot be taken for granted and must continuously be reproduced and confirmed by others. At a time when fundamental scientific and democratic values are being threatened by sceptics and populist arguments, an understanding of the relationship between them is much needed. This is an invaluable resource for all who are interested in the role of scientific knowledge in governance, societal developments and the implications for democracy, concerned publics and citizen engagement.

La technologie science humaine : recherches d'histoire et d'ethnologie des techniques.
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ISBN: 9782735102273 2735102270 Year: 1987 Publisher: Paris Maison des sciences de l'homme

Histoire générale des techniques. 5 : Les techniques de la civilisation industrielle : transformation, communication, facteur humain.
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ISBN: 2130349498 2130349471 9782130349471 9782130349495 Year: 1979 Publisher: Paris PUF


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We are the machine : the computer, the Internet, and information in contemporary German literature
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ISBN: 9781571133922 1571133925 9781571137524 9786612795510 1571137521 1282795511 Year: 2009 Volume: *64 Publisher: Rochester : Camden House,

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Despite our embrace of the sheer utility and productivity it has made possible, the revolution in Information Technology has led to unease about its possible misuse, abuse, and even its eventual domination of humankind. That German culture is not immune to this sense of disquiet is reflected in a broad variety of German-language fiction since the 1940s. This first study of the literary reception of IT in German-speaking lands begins with an analysis of a seminal novel from the beginning of the computer age, Heinrich Hauser's Gigant Hirn (1948), then moves to its primary focus, the literature of the past two decades, ranging from Gerd Heidenreich's Die Nacht der Händler (1995) to Daniel Glattauer's novel Gut gegen Nordwind (2006). Along the way, it analyzes eleven works, including Barbara Frischmuth's novel Die Schrift des Freundes (1998), René Pollesch's drama world wide web-slums (2001), and Günter Grass's novella Im Krebsgang (2003). As wildly different in approach as these works are, each has much to offer this investigation of the imaginary border dividing the human from the technological, a lingering, centuries-old construct created to ease the anxiety that technology has given rise to throughout the ages


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Authority, liberty and automatic machinery in early modern Europe.
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ISBN: 0801828430 Year: 1986 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press


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La Technique ou l'Enjeu du siècle
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ISBN: 9782717815634 2717815635 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris : Economica,

Artisans, industrie: nouvelles révolutions du Moyen Âge à nos jours
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ISBN: 2847880518 9782847880519 Year: 2004 Volume: 52 Publisher: Paris Société française d'histoire des sciences et des techniques

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Ce volume rassemble les actes d’un colloque tenu au Conservatoire national des arts et métiers et à la Cité des sciences et de l’industrie en 2001. Les discontinuités techniques examinées à la lumière de la notion de « révolution industrielle » en constituent le sujet central. Les auteurs, convaincus de la diversité des expériences en Europe et dans les mondes extra-européens, proposent de faire un nouvel usage de la notion de « révolution industrielle ». Loin de réduire le changement technique au front étroit des secteurs pionniers et de la grande industrie, ils mettent l’accent sur la pluralité des modes de production, sur les relations dialectiques nouées entre les générations techniques et sur la multiplicité des formes de l’innovation. L’artisanat, longtemps relégué dans la routine et le passéisme, apparaît riche de ressources. Ces études offrent une vision différenciée et non finaliste des processus d’intensification technique. L’échelle chronologique est celle des longues durées, du Moyen Âge à l’époque contemporaine. Dans leurs approches spatiales, les auteurs ont privilégié les changements d’échelle et les comparaisons. Par leur relecture du concept de « révolution industrielle », les historiens des techniques apportent ainsi une contribution majeure à la discipline historique dans son ensemble.

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