Cultures of Control (review)

The essays collected in Cultures of Control explore the history of the notion of control and its connections with culture and technology. In assembling the volume, Miriam R. Levin has brought work from cultural history and the history of ideas together with work in the history of technology. Unsurprisingly, with a topic so large and diffuse, the volume is uneven and imperfectly unified. Still, it suggests a nexus of control, technology, and culture that should stimulate further effort in this area

Archaeology · Control (management) · Cultural history · History of technology · Nexus (standard) · Sociology · Volume (thermodynamics) · Work (physics) · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · History · History of Computing Technologies · Mechanical Engineering