Adelheid Voskuhl
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adelheid Voskuhl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adelheid |
| FAMILY NAME | Voskuhl |
| SIGNATURE | VOSKUHL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Android and the Machine: Materialism, Mechanicism, and Industrialism in the Early and Late Modern Ages
The trope of the "man-machine" and its material manifestation–the mechanical android–have seemingly been able to focus forcefully and effortlessly across early-modern and modern periods such diverse issues as the matter/spirit dualism, anxieties about the mechanical nature of the human body and soul, and rapid industrialization. This essay explores the man-machine's allegorical powers and its traversing of distinct periods in the history of techn…
Engineering Philosophy: Theories of Technology, German Idealism, and Social Order in High-Industrial Germany
During the so-called "Second Industrial Revolution," engineers were constituting themselves as a new social and professional group, and found themselves in often fierce competition with existing elites-the military, the nobility, and educated bourgeois mandarins-whose roots went back to medieval and early modern pre-industrial social orders. During that same time, engineers also discovered the discipline of philosophy: as a means to express their…
Self-knowledge in the history of technology: Industrialism, cultural analysis and desire
It is a great privilege and pleasure to be part of this forum. I am most grateful to the editor and the authors for their initiative and generous and thoughtful criticism. They make me re-think my
Emancipation in the Industrial Age: Technology, Rationality, and the Cold War in Habermas's Early Epistemology and Social Theory
In his 1968 essay "Technology and Science as 'Ideology'," Jürgen Habermas deals more explicitly than in other works with phenomena related to modern technology and science. 1 He is well known for his social theory, legal theory, and theories of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, and has been a major figure in the intellectual history of modern Europe due to the twin role he has played as both a voice and a representative of the political and phi…
The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice
Reviewed by: The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice Adelheid Voskuhl (bio) The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice. By Andre Wakefield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+226. $45. Andre Wakefield frames his richly detailed study of German cameralism in the eighteenth century as a substantial and profound critique: He demonstrates how little the theoretical writings by …
Producing objects, producing texts: Accounts of android automata in late eighteenth-century Europe
Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies
Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies
This essay investigates the design of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies as a site at which the human qualities of ‘hearing’ and ‘understanding’ are mimicked in machines. On the basis of an observational study, it explains the major work components and debates in ASR, such as research paradigms and strategies, as well as the intricacies of instruments and experimentation. Key arguments concern the tensions, conflicts, and ambiguities…
Recreating Herschel's actinometry: An essay in the historiography of experimental practice
and signs and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacking things. Brother William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Recreating, as part of doing history, can be a way of reflecting what creating is as part of science. Discussions revolving around historical understanding of the scientific enterprise have recently included strong commitments to turn scientific practice into one of the main objectives of historical stud…
Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies
This essay investigates the design of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies as a site at which the human qualities of ‘hearing’ and ‘understanding’ are mimicked in machines. On the basis of an observational study, it explains the major work components and debates in ASR, such as research paradigms and strategies, as well as the intricacies of instruments and experimentation. Key arguments concern the tensions, conflicts, and ambiguities…
Recreating Herschel's actinometry: An essay in the historiography of experimental practice
and signs and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacking things. Brother William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Recreating, as part of doing history, can be a way of reflecting what creating is as part of science. Discussions revolving around historical understanding of the scientific enterprise have recently included strong commitments to turn scientific practice into one of the main objectives of historical stud…
Producing objects, producing texts: Accounts of android automata in late eighteenth-century Europe
Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies
Recreating Herschel's actinometry: An essay in the historiography of experimental practice
and signs and the signs of signs are used only when we are lacking things. Brother William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Recreating, as part of doing history, can be a way of reflecting what creating is as part of science. Discussions revolving around historical understanding of the scientific enterprise have recently included strong commitments to turn scientific practice into one of the main objectives of historical stud…
Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies
Humans, Machines, and Conversations: An Ethnographic Study of the Making of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies
This essay investigates the design of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technologies as a site at which the human qualities of ‘hearing’ and ‘understanding’ are mimicked in machines. On the basis of an observational study, it explains the major work components and debates in ASR, such as research paradigms and strategies, as well as the intricacies of instruments and experimentation. Key arguments concern the tensions, conflicts, and ambiguities…
Producing objects, producing texts: Accounts of android automata in late eighteenth-century Europe
The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice
Reviewed by: The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice Adelheid Voskuhl (bio) The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice. By Andre Wakefield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. x+226. $45. Andre Wakefield frames his richly detailed study of German cameralism in the eighteenth century as a substantial and profound critique: He demonstrates how little the theoretical writings by …
Self-knowledge in the history of technology: Industrialism, cultural analysis and desire
It is a great privilege and pleasure to be part of this forum. I am most grateful to the editor and the authors for their initiative and generous and thoughtful criticism. They make me re-think my
Emancipation in the Industrial Age: Technology, Rationality, and the Cold War in Habermas's Early Epistemology and Social Theory
In his 1968 essay "Technology and Science as 'Ideology'," Jürgen Habermas deals more explicitly than in other works with phenomena related to modern technology and science. 1 He is well known for his social theory, legal theory, and theories of subjectivity and intersubjectivity, and has been a major figure in the intellectual history of modern Europe due to the twin role he has played as both a voice and a representative of the political and phi…
Engineering Philosophy: Theories of Technology, German Idealism, and Social Order in High-Industrial Germany
During the so-called "Second Industrial Revolution," engineers were constituting themselves as a new social and professional group, and found themselves in often fierce competition with existing elites-the military, the nobility, and educated bourgeois mandarins-whose roots went back to medieval and early modern pre-industrial social orders. During that same time, engineers also discovered the discipline of philosophy: as a means to express their…
The Android and the Machine: Materialism, Mechanicism, and Industrialism in the Early and Late Modern Ages
The trope of the "man-machine" and its material manifestation–the mechanical android–have seemingly been able to focus forcefully and effortlessly across early-modern and modern periods such diverse issues as the matter/spirit dualism, anxieties about the mechanical nature of the human body and soul, and rapid industrialization. This essay explores the man-machine's allegorical powers and its traversing of distinct periods in the history of techn…
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cybernetics and Technology in Society (3 works)