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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction: Looking forward to Boston in the Year 2000 from the Year 1887
2 Theories of Technology and Culture
Theme 1: Biology and Biotechnology
3 Technologies of Sex and Gender: Reproduction and Birth
4 Technologies of Race: Medical Experimentation
5 Technologies of Death: Radiation
6 Genetically Modified Food Biology and biotechnology paper due
Theme 2: Computers and Information Technologies
7 Our Machines, Ourselves: Computers, Subjectivity, Politics
8 Simulating Life In Silico: Silicon Second Nature
9 Our Machines, Our Music: From White Noise to Black Noise
10 Internet Infrastructure Computers and information technologies paper due
Theme 3: Technological Infrastructure and Social Forms
11 Trains
12 Networking the Ocean
13 Nanotechnology Technological infrastructure and social forms paper due

 
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