Article ID: CBB096724110

The Codification of Techniques: Between Bureaucracy and the Markets in Early Modern Europe from a Global Perspective (April 2021)

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Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 62
Issue: 2
Pages: 442-466


Publication Date: April 2021
Edition Details: Special Issue: Technology Is Global: The Useful and Reliable Knowledge Debate
Language: English

The term "technology" has routinely been used to mean the application of science to industry. By contrast, "artisanal technology" questions the current epistemological status of practices as sources of abstraction and the synthetic activities of the mind. This article shows the connections between bureaucracy and the codification of useful knowledge—or technique—across Europe, in various channels of knowledge transmission, before focusing on British artisanal records. Artisan-entrepreneurs, facing expanding markets and differentiated demands, were arguably crucial to the birth of new rationalities of labor. Theirs was a path to technological knowledge rooted in the merchant economy, an alternative to technocracy and the rise of engineering sciences. The article thus shows that "technology" as an abstraction of technical activity belonged to the craft culture.

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Article Dagmar Schäfer; Simona Valeriani (April 2021) Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate. Technology and Culture (pp. 327-347). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Pamela H.
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Wang, Sixiang
Wolfram Koeppe
Dietz, Feike
Bhatti, Anil
Concepts
Crafts and craftspeople
Knowledge and learning
Philosophy of science
Traditional knowledge
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Secrecy
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
18th century
17th century
Renaissance
Modern
Places
Europe
China
Africa
Americas
Asia
India
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