21A.340J / STS.075J Technology and Culture, Fall 2003
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Helmreich, Stefan, 1966-
Alternative Title
Technology and Culture
Date Issued
December 2003
Abstract
This course examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a variety of social and historical settings ranging from 19th century factories to 21st century techno dance floors, from colonial Melanesia to capitalist Massachusetts. We organize our discussions around three broad questions, corresponding to three syllabus themes: What cultural effects and risks follow from treating biology as technology? How have computers and information technologies changed the ways we think about ourselves? How are politics built into the infrastructures within which we live? We will be interested in how technologies have been used both to facilitate and undermine relations of inequality, and in whether technology has produced a better world, and for whom.
Subjects
Technology
Technology and culture
Biotechnology
Computers and the self
Digital world
Science and religion
Racial economy
Ethics
Technoscience
Bioterrorism
Cloning
Genetically modified food
GMO
Gender identity
Information age
21A.340J
STS.075J
21A.340
STS.075
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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