The lives of machines in postcolonial territories

People who watch the remote parts of the world seldom stop at the machines which pepper the landscapes and mark the rhythm of daily activities, so insoluble they seem in the common representations which are conveyed about those spaces and the populations that live there. They remain a blind spot for documentary makers, anthropologists and geographers – an object that is best kept out of scope, an alien intruder thought to contaminate the stage of an original pre-mechanical reality. The first

Sociology · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History of Science and Medicine