Edward Jones‐Imhotep
Biographic Data
| ID | 5825384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Jones‐Imhotep |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones‐Imhotep |
| SIGNATURE | IMHOTEP E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Striking the empire back
This article explores the other side of hegemony – a concept central to John Krige’s work on co-production and transnational history. Focusing on the case of Gerald Bull, university professor-turned-weapons dealer, it examines how individuals working on the edges of Cold War empires cobbled together practices, objects, and geographies that evaded and exploited the power of nation-states. Tracing those concerns from North America to Barbados and I…
Systemic and Epistemic Racism in the History of Technology
Systemic and Epistemic Racism in the History of Technology Chandra Bhimull (bio), Gabrielle Hecht (bio), Edward Jones-Imhotep (bio), Chakanetsa Mavhunga (bio), Lisa Nakamura (bio), and Asif Siddiqi (bio) Keywords Systemic Racism, Epistemic Racism, History of Technology, racism Concerns about racism—systemic and otherwise—have circulated within the Society for the History of Technology for many years. But it is only in tandem with recent U.S. upri…
The ghost factories
Historically, automata had always relied on a trick; and they’re still playing it. Imagine a factory. On the shop floor stands a single worker – a young girl. Surrounding her are the hulking frames
Imaginaire de la guillotine
Les pannes mécaniques ont été au cœur de l’histoire de la période moderne, de ses cultures matérielles, de ses ambitions politiques, de ses angoisses culturelles et de ses rythmes sociaux. Les historiens ont néanmoins traité les machines défaillantes comme des objets sans histoire propre. Ce document creuse les significations riches et variées que les pannes de machines ont eues dans leur propre temps pour les gens qui ont vécu avec elles et à tr…
Causality
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The unfailing machine
This article explores how the pre-eminent public psychology of the French Revolution – sentimentalism – shaped the necessity, understanding and construction of its most iconic public machine. The guillotine provided a solution to the problem of public executions in an age of both sentiment and reason. It was designed to rationalize punishment and make it more humane; but it was also designed to guard against the psychological effects of older, mo…
Malleability and Machines
The Pianist Glenn Gould has often been portrayed as a musical idealist who embraced mundane recording media as a way of escaping the anxiety of the concert hall. In pursuing his musical ideals, however, Gould obsessed over material objects-the qualities of a chair, the action of piano keys, the placement of splices in magnetic tape. This paper argues that for him, the detailed properties of machines and electronic media were crucial, not just as …
Laboratory Cultures
This essay uses the visual and material cultures of two laboratories as a way of initiating an historiographical discussion about what it means to write the history of science and technology in Canada. It uses a potentially familiar topic—the conception and construction of the Alouette satellite—to illustrate how the discipline might shed its self-conscious preoccupation with discoveries and innovations, and instead focus its attention on a revis…
Communicating the North
In the late 1940s, a group of Canadian ionospheric researchers used high‐latitude atmospheric research to carve out influence and autonomy for themselves and the nation. Echoing a broader political project that cast the North as a source of Canadian autonomy and power in the postwar world, the group focused its research on the turbulent and anomalous ionosphere above Canada, which disrupted high‐frequency communications throughout its northern re…
Critical Histories
The Computer Revolution in Canada
Reviewed by: The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence Edward Jones-Imhotep (bio) The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence. By John N. Vardalas. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. vi+409. $45. Histories of computing often exhibit a fascinating tension. On one hand, they point us to the computer's place in integrating the vast technohuman systems of the cold war and to th…
Disciplining technology
This essay explores the relationship between cold‐war military electronics and the material culture of space science. Focusing on the world's first ionospheric research satellite, designed and built by the Canadian Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment at the height of the Cold War, it seeks to situate the practices and beliefs that underwrote the reliability of this instrument within more profound changes in electronics and electrica…
The unfailing machine
This article explores how the pre-eminent public psychology of the French Revolution – sentimentalism – shaped the necessity, understanding and construction of its most iconic public machine. The guillotine provided a solution to the problem of public executions in an age of both sentiment and reason. It was designed to rationalize punishment and make it more humane; but it was also designed to guard against the psychological effects of older, mo…
Disciplining technology
This essay explores the relationship between cold‐war military electronics and the material culture of space science. Focusing on the world's first ionospheric research satellite, designed and built by the Canadian Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment at the height of the Cold War, it seeks to situate the practices and beliefs that underwrote the reliability of this instrument within more profound changes in electronics and electrica…
The Computer Revolution in Canada
Reviewed by: The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence Edward Jones-Imhotep (bio) The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence. By John N. Vardalas. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. Pp. vi+409. $45. Histories of computing often exhibit a fascinating tension. On one hand, they point us to the computer's place in integrating the vast technohuman systems of the cold war and to th…
Critical Histories
Laboratory Cultures
This essay uses the visual and material cultures of two laboratories as a way of initiating an historiographical discussion about what it means to write the history of science and technology in Canada. It uses a potentially familiar topic—the conception and construction of the Alouette satellite—to illustrate how the discipline might shed its self-conscious preoccupation with discoveries and innovations, and instead focus its attention on a revis…
Communicating the North
In the late 1940s, a group of Canadian ionospheric researchers used high‐latitude atmospheric research to carve out influence and autonomy for themselves and the nation. Echoing a broader political project that cast the North as a source of Canadian autonomy and power in the postwar world, the group focused its research on the turbulent and anomalous ionosphere above Canada, which disrupted high‐frequency communications throughout its northern re…
Malleability and Machines
The Pianist Glenn Gould has often been portrayed as a musical idealist who embraced mundane recording media as a way of escaping the anxiety of the concert hall. In pursuing his musical ideals, however, Gould obsessed over material objects-the qualities of a chair, the action of piano keys, the placement of splices in magnetic tape. This paper argues that for him, the detailed properties of machines and electronic media were crucial, not just as …
The unfailing machine
This article explores how the pre-eminent public psychology of the French Revolution – sentimentalism – shaped the necessity, understanding and construction of its most iconic public machine. The guillotine provided a solution to the problem of public executions in an age of both sentiment and reason. It was designed to rationalize punishment and make it more humane; but it was also designed to guard against the psychological effects of older, mo…
Causality
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Imaginaire de la guillotine
Les pannes mécaniques ont été au cœur de l’histoire de la période moderne, de ses cultures matérielles, de ses ambitions politiques, de ses angoisses culturelles et de ses rythmes sociaux. Les historiens ont néanmoins traité les machines défaillantes comme des objets sans histoire propre. Ce document creuse les significations riches et variées que les pannes de machines ont eues dans leur propre temps pour les gens qui ont vécu avec elles et à tr…
The ghost factories
Historically, automata had always relied on a trick; and they’re still playing it. Imagine a factory. On the shop floor stands a single worker – a young girl. Surrounding her are the hulking frames
Systemic and Epistemic Racism in the History of Technology
Systemic and Epistemic Racism in the History of Technology Chandra Bhimull (bio), Gabrielle Hecht (bio), Edward Jones-Imhotep (bio), Chakanetsa Mavhunga (bio), Lisa Nakamura (bio), and Asif Siddiqi (bio) Keywords Systemic Racism, Epistemic Racism, History of Technology, racism Concerns about racism—systemic and otherwise—have circulated within the Society for the History of Technology for many years. But it is only in tandem with recent U.S. upri…
Striking the empire back
This article explores the other side of hegemony – a concept central to John Krige’s work on co-production and transnational history. Focusing on the case of Gerald Bull, university professor-turned-weapons dealer, it examines how individuals working on the edges of Cold War empires cobbled together practices, objects, and geographies that evaded and exploited the power of nation-states. Tracing those concerns from North America to Barbados and I…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History of Science and Natural History (3 works) · Politics (3 works)