Paul Rabinow: Marking Time. On the Anthropology of the Contemporary (2007)

In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary. Drawing richly on the work of Michel Foucault, John Dewey, Niklas Luhmann, and, most interestingly, German painter Gerhard Richter, Rabinow offers a set of conceptual tools for scholars examining cutting-edge practices in the life sciences, security, new media and art practices, and other emergent phenomena. Taking up topics that include bioethics, anger and competition among molecular biologists, the lessons of the Drosophilagenome, the nature of ethnographic observation in radically new settings, and the moral landscape shared by scientists and anthropologists, Rabinow shows how anthropology remains relevant to contemporary debates. By turning abstract philosophical problems into real-world explorations and offering original insights, Marking Time is a landmark contribution to the continuing re-invention of anthropology and the human sciences.

Publisher Princeton University Press, 2007
ISBN 0691133638, 9780691133638
149 pages

Keywords and phrases
Gerhard Richter, Thucydides, anthropologist, Bauhaus, Drosophila, Craig Venter, Luhmann, thumos, synthetic biology, Paul Klee, John Sulston, Michel Foucault, Max Weber, Gilles Deleuze, Christopher Kelty, Human Genome Project, akrasia, Celera Genomics, Francis Collins, proteome

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Journal of Media Sociology 1(1/2) (Winter/Spring 2009)

This peer-reviewed scientific journal publishes theoretical and empirical papers and essays and book reviews that advance an understanding of the role and function (and dysfunctions) of mass media and mass communication in society or the world.

With contributions by Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark Deuze, John Hatcher, Amani Ismail, Mervat Youssef and Dan Berkowitz, Leo W. Jeffres, Kimberly Neuendorf, Cheryl Campanella Bracken and David J. Atkin, Ruben P. Konig, Hans C. Rebers, and Henk Westerik.

Edited by Michael R. Cheney
ISSN 1940-9397
130 pages

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The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (1987)

The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th­century Portugal to today’s AI labs – to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.

Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hudges and Trevor J. Pinch
Publisher MIT Press, 1987
ISBN 0262022621, 9780262022620
419 pages

Key words and phrases: cognitivism, azo dyes, ultrasound, expert systems, Parkesine, Michel Callon, Trevor Pinch, sociology of science, gyroscope, social constructivist, consumption junction, Wiebe Bijker, Elmer Sperry, Congo red, nitrocellulose, Cape Bojador, accelerometer, turbojet, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Celluloid

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