Technologies of Power
Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14528544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen H Cutcliffe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 649-651 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0109 |
| OpenAlex | W2058485882 |
| Language | EN |
"We have understood for centuries that technology is an instrument of power" (p. 1). So opens this important collection of essays. Yet only in recent years have historians begun fully to appreciate the mutually constitutive domains of the technical and the social. Among the intellectual leaders in recognizing the simultaneous interactive shaping of technology and society have been Tom Hughes and his late wife, Agatha, to whom this collection of eight essays by former students is dedicated
Agatha · Art · Art history · Honor · Physics · Political science · Power (physics) · Sociology · Wife · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Classics · Computer Science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History of Computing Technologies · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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