Making Meat

Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production

Bibliographic Data

ID4023923
AuthorsWilliam Boyd (0000-0002-8466-4669), William Auteur du texte Boyd (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume42
Issue4
Pages631-664
Publication date2001-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tech.2001.0150
OpenAlexW2048076569
LanguageEN
Citations received107
References cited14

In his 1948 classic, Mechanization Takes Command, Siegfried Giedion posed the following question: "What happens when mechanization encounters organic substance?" 1 Well aware of the application of mass-production techniques to agriculture and of the role of genetics in facilitating "the structural alteration of plants and animals," Giedion nevertheless held to a basic distinction between "living substance" and mechanization. The idea of nature as technics, of biophysical systems as technological systems, would have seemed inappropriate in his framework. For Giedion, interventions in the organic growth process were qualitatively different from efforts to subject other aspects of modern life to the dictates of the machine

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