Article ID: CBB426709659

Forum: The Paper Technolgies of Capitalism -- Must We Embody Context? (April 2017)

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Hahn, Barbara (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 58
Issue: 2
Pages: 556-569


Publication Date: April 2017
Edition Details: Forum on the Paper Technologies of Capitalism
Language: English

The essays in this forum brace this meditation on the historiography of technology. Understanding devices incorporates the context of any particular hardware, as John Staudenmaier showed by quantifying the contents of the first decades of Technology and Culture. As contextualist approaches have widened from systems theory through social construction and into the assemblages of actor-network theory, the discipline has kept artifacts at the analytical center: it is the history of technology that scholars seek to understand. Even recognizing that the machine only embodies the technology, the discipline has long sought to explain the machine. These essays invite consideration of how the history of technology might apply to non-corporeal things—methods as well as machines, and all the worldly phenomena that function in technological ways even without physicality. Materiality is financial as well as corporeal, the history of capitalism reminds us, and this essay urges scholars to apply history-of-technology approaches more broadly.

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, David Chan
Sheth, Sudev
David Sax
Schwarz, Frederic D.
Sassaman, Richard
Holloway, Kelly Joslin
Concepts
Capitalism
Business and commerce
Things; objects in the world
Artifacts
History of technology, as a discipline
Material culture
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Delaware (U.S.)
China
Canada
Caribbean
Institutions
United States Postal Service (USPS)
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
American Medical Association
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