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Conﬂicting Threads. Technological Innovation and the Socio-technical Ensemble of Weaving (2022)

Ellen Harlizius-Klück (Author)
Vivek S. Oak (Author)
Mamidipudi, Annapurna (Author)

Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Volume: 89
Issue: 1
Pages: 35-62

DOI: 10.5771/0040-117X-2022-1-35

Publication Date: 2022
Edition Details: Special issue: Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conﬂicts
Language: English

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Cross-cultural comparison Prehistory, antiquity, and traditional societies Technological innovation History of technology, as a discipline Technology and society Weaving 21st century India Greece

This paper refers to two new approaches to conceive the relationship between technological innovation and society as one of anchoring: The TASC concept (Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conflicts) aims to show how societal conflicts are anchored in technologies that, as such, are not responsible for the conflict. The ‘Anchoring Innovation’ research program of the Dutch Research School in Classical Studies (OIKOS) aims to explain how technological in- novations were anchored in ancient society. Our paper trials these concepts along the threads that connect the social and the technical in the weaving of contemporary India and archaic Greece. The first part of the paper examines the Indian government’s efforts to provide technological upgradation to a community of weavers who insist on their loin loom that is embedded in their local ecology, making them appear backward and ignorant of innovation. In the second part, we examine how innovation in ancient Greece was anchored in the socially ubiquitous technology of weaving. In both cases, the social turns out to be an essential part of (the technology of) weaving. Conflicts arise where technology claims to be ahead of a society that must constantly adapt to it. , Dieser Beitrag bezieht sich auf zwei neue Ansätze, das Verhältnis von tech- nischer Innovation und Gesellschaft als eines der Verankerung aufzufassen: Das TASC-Konzept (Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conflicts) will aufzeigen, wie gesellschaftliche Konflikte in Technologien verankert werden, die als solche nicht für den Konflikt verantwortlich sind. Das ‚Anchoring Innovation‘ Forschungsprogramm der niederländischen Research School in Classical Studies (OIKOS) will erklären, wie technologische Innovationen in der antiken Gesellschaft verankert wurden. Unser Beitrag erprobt diese Konzepte entlang der Fäden, die in der Weberei des zeitgenössischen Indien und des archaischen Griechenland das Soziale und das Technische verbin- den. Der erste Teil des Beitrags untersucht die Bemühungen der indischen Regierung eine Gemeinschaft von Weberinnen technisch aufzurüsten, die auf ihrem eigenen, scheinbar primitiven Gurtwebstuhl und der Einbettung in ihre lokale Ökologie beharren, wodurch sie als rückständig und ignorant gegen- über Innovationen erscheinen. Im zweiten Teil untersuchen wir, wie Innova- tionen im antiken Griechenland in der sozial allgegenwärtigen Technologie der Weberei verankert wurden. In beiden Fälle erweist sich das Soziale als wesentlicher Bestandteil der (Technologie der) Weberei. Konflikte entstehen dort, wo Technologie beansprucht, einer Gesellschaft voraus zu sein, die sich ständig an sie anpassen muss.

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Article Helmuth Trischler (2022) Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conﬂicts. An Introduction. Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie (pp. 3-8). unapi

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