21A.340J / STS.075J Technology and Culture, Fall 2003

Title:	21A.340J / STS.075J Technology and Culture, Fall 2003
Author:	Helmreich, Stefan, 1966-
Abstract:	This course examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a variety of social and historical settings ranging from 19th century factories to 21st century techno dance floors, from colonial Melanesia to capitalist Massachusetts. We organize our discussions around three broad questions, corresponding to three syllabus themes: What cultural effects and risks follow from treating biology as technology? How have computers and information technologies changed the ways we think about ourselves? How are politics built into the infrastructures within which we live? We will be interested in how technologies have been used both to facilitate and undermine relations of inequality, and in whether technology has produced a better world, and for whom.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37327
Issue Date:	2003-12
Keywords:	Technology, Technology and culture, Biotechnology, Computers and the self, Digital world, Science and religion, Racial economy, Ethics, Technoscience, Bioterrorism, Cloning, Genetically modified food, GMO, Gender identity, Information age, 21A.340J, STS.075J, 21A.340, STS.075, 261201, Biotechnology, 110199, Computer and Information Sciences, Other
ID:	21A.340J-Fall2003

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