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Lecture notes.
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
OUTLINES |
| Introductory Themes |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Theories of Technology and Culture |
(PDF) |
| Theme 1: Biology and Biotechnology |
| 3 |
Technologies of Sex and Gender: Reproduction, Birth, Risk |
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| 4 |
Technologies of Race: Medical Experimentation |
(PDF) |
| 5 |
Technologies of Death: Risk and the Biopolitics of Radiation |
(PDF) |
| 6 |
Genetically Modified Food |
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| Theme 2: Computers and Information Technologies |
| 7 |
Sociologies of Computing |
(PDF) |
| 8 |
From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life |
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| 9 |
Our Machines, Our Music: From White Noise to Black Noise |
(PDF) |
| Theme 3: Technological Infrastructure and Social Forms |
| 10 |
Infrastructure |
(PDF) |
| 11 |
Trains, Automobiles, Organs |
(PDF) |
| 12 |
Student Paper Presentations |
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| 13 |
Party and Student Paper Presentations |
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