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Rewiring the "nation" : the place of technology in American studies

Author: Carolyn Thomas de la Peña; Siva Vaidhyanathan
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This special bound issue of American Quarterly offers a re-reading of the narrative of U.S. technologies as we move beyond celebrations of exceptional tinkerers and a deterministic machine-driven sense of progress to a more complex understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities that befall a nation that interweaves its identities, labors, and creative cultures with its machines.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Carolyn Thomas de la Peña; Siva Vaidhyanathan
ISBN: 9780801886515 0801886511
OCLC Number: 124025081
Description: viii, 437 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents: Preface / Curtis Marez and Marita Sturken --
Introduction / Siva Vaidhyanathan --
Technologies of transcendence. Technology and its discontents: on the verge of the posthuman / Joel Dinerstein --
Technology and the production of difference / David E. Nye --
The turn within: the irony of technology in a globalized world / Susan J. Douglas --
Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud: African Americans, American artifactual culture, and Black vernacular technological creativity / Rayvon Fouche. The cultural work of technological systems. Imperial mechanics: South America's hemispheric integration in the Machine Age / Ricardo D. Salvatore --
Precision targets: GPS and the militarization of U.S. consumer identity / Caren Kaplan --
The wire devils: pulp thrillers, the telephone, and action at a distance in the wiring of a nation / Robert MacDougall. Technology and knowledge systems. Technology and below-the-line labor in the copyfight over intellectual property / Andrew Ross --
Failing narratives, initiating technologies: hurricane Katrina and the production of a weather media event / Nicole R. fleetwood --
Boundaries and border wars: DES, technology, and environmental justice / Julie Sze --
Markers and machines: work in the technological sensoryscapes of finance / Caitlin Zaloom. Technology, mobility, and the body. Educating the eye: body mechanics and streamlining in the United States, 1925-1950 / Carma G. Gorman --
Farewell to the El: nostalgic urban visuality on the Third Avenue elevated train / Sunny Stalter --
Flexible technologies of subjectivity and mobility across the Americas / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel. Viewing the field. "Slow and low progress," or why American studies should do technology / Carolyn de la Pena --
Digital junction / Debra DeRuyver and Jennifer Evans.
Other Titles: American quarterly.
Responsibility: edited by Carolyn de la Peña & Siva Vaidhyanathan.
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