Where possible, links to the Internet Movie Database entries for films used in the course have been made in the Assigned Readings table below.

Required Books

Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. 2nd ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 (first edition 1987). ISBN: 0807046450.

Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0691090181.

Helmreich, Stefan. Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. Updated Edition with a New Preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520207998.

Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or The Love of Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0674043235.

Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. New York: Bantam Books, 1995. ISBN: 0553096095.

Recommended Books

Bellamy, Edward. 1888. Looking Backward: 2000-1887. New York: Signet, 2000. ISBN: 0312122446.

Assigned Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS 1 Introduction: Looking Forward to Boston in the Year 2000 from the Year 1887 2 Theories of Technology and Culture Malinowski, Bronislaw. Magic, Science and Religion. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, 1948, pp. 17-35. ISBN: 0881336572. Gusterson, Hugh. "Nuclear Weapons Testing: Scientific Experiment as Political Ritual." In Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. Edited by Laura Nader. New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 131-147. ISBN: 0415914647. Marx, Karl. 1867. "The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret." In Capital. Vol 1. Translated by Ben Fowkes. London: Penguin, 1976, pp. 163-177. ISBN: 0140445684. Film Excerpt The Matrix Theme 1: Biology and Biotechnology 3 Technologies of Sex and Gender: Reproduction and Birth Martin, Emily. The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. 3rd ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 2001 (first edition 1987). ISBN: 0807046450. Film Excerpt The Handmaid's Tale 4 Technologies of Race: Medical Experimentation Kapsalis, Terri. "Mastering the Female Pelvis: Race and the Tools of Reproduction." In Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, pp. 31-59. ISBN: 0822319284. Jones, James. "The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: 'A Moral Astigmatism'." In The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 275-286. ISBN: 0253326931. Landecker, Hannah. "Immortality, In Vitro: A History of the HeLa Cell Line." In Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics. Edited by Paul Brodwin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, pp. 53-72. ISBN: 0253214289. Video The Deadly Deception 5 Technologies of Death: Radiation Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0691090181. Video Containment 6 Genetically Modified Food Massey, Adrianne. "Crops, Genes, and Evolution." Gastonomica (Summer 2001): 20-29. Wynne, Brian. "Creating Public Alienation: Expert Cultures of Risk and Ethics on GMOs." Science as Culture 10, no. 4 (2001): 445-481. Haraway, Donna. "Mice Into Wormholes: A Technoscience Fugue in Two Parts." In Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_ Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 55-63, and 79-94. ISBN: 041591244X. Video Stolen Harvest Theme 2: Computers and Information Technologies 7 Our Machines, Ourselves: Computers, Subjectivity, Politics Edwards, Paul N. "The Army and the Microworld: Computers and the Politics of Gender Identity." Signs 16, no. 1 (1990): 102-127. Forsythe, Diana E. "Engineering Knowledge: The Construction of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence." In Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 35-58. ISBN: 0804741417. Pfaffenberger, Bryan. "The Social Meaning of the Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution Was No Revolution." Anthropological Quarterly 61, no. 1 (1988): 39-47. Helmreich, Stefan. "Artificial Life, Inc.: Darwin and Commodity Fetishism from Santa Fe to Silicon Valley." Science as Culture 10, no. 4 (2001): 483-504. Film Excerpts 2001, AI 8 Simulating Life In Silico: Silicon Second Nature Helmreich, Stefan. Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. Updated edition with a new preface. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 0520207998. Film Excerpt Jurassic Park 9 Our Machines, Our Music: From White Noise to Black Noise Pinch, Trevor, and Frank Trocco. "Sculpting Sound," "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and "Shaping the Synthesizer." Introduction, chapter 1, and 3 in Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 1-31, and 53-69. ISBN: 0674008898. Rose, Tricia. "Soul Sonic Forces: Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Practice in Rap Music." In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, MA: Wesleyan University Press, 1994, pp. 62-96. ISBN: 0819552712. Williams, Ben. "Black Secret Technology: Detroit Techno and the Information Age." In Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. Edited by Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh N. Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines. New York: NYU Press, 2001, pp. 154-176. ISBN: 0814736033. Film Excerpt Scratch 10 Internet Infrastructure Edwards, Paul. "Y2K: Millennial Reflections on Computers as Infrastructure." History and Technology 15 (1998): 7-29.  Stephenson, Neal. "Mother Earth Mother Board: The Hacker Tourist Ventures Forth across the Wide and Wondrous Meatspace of Three Continents. Chronicling the Laying of the Longest Wire on Earth." WIRED 4, no. 12 (1996): 97-160. Sundaram, Ravi. Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India. 2001. Kumar, Amitava. "Temporary Access: The Indian H-1B Worker in the United States." In Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. Edited by Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh N. Tu,and Alicia Headlam Hines. New York: NYU Press, 2001, pp. 76-87. ISBN: 0814736033. Theme 3: Technological Infrastructure and Social Forms 11 Trains Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or The Love of Technology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. ISBN: 0674043235. 12 Networking the Ocean Crawford, T. Hugh. "Networking the (Non) Human: Moby-Dick, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Bruno Latour." Configurations 5, no. 1 (1997): 1-21. Höhler, Sabine. "Floating Pieces, Deep Sea, Full Measure: Spatial Relations in Oceanography as a 'Field Science'." Unpublished Paper. Presented at the meetings of the Society for the Social Study of Science, Cambridge, MA, 2001. Hamilton-Patterson, James. "Charts and Naming." In The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds. New York: Henry Holt, 1992, pp. 9-46. ISBN: 0091745012. 13 Nanotechnology Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer . New York: Bantam Books, 1995. ISBN: 0553096095.