HISTORY 3230 - Topics in the History of Modern Economics,Technology,and Science from Standard Time to the Internet

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

GIS This course explores the history of infrastructures- e.g., communication/information, transportation, energy, and military organization-to introduce pivotal themes in the contemporary history of science and technology, science studies, and social-institutional history. Its definition of infrastructure embraces both the explicit set of practices, systems, and technologies that provide the conditions for the possibility of modern social life and the implicit contexts (environmental, cultural, and psychological) that these planned structures reveal. General themes include the increasing place of ethics in constructing infrastructures, the role of the arts in revealing the "forgotten" infrastructures onwhich modern life is based, and the problem of complexity in contemporary historiography. Some specific infrastructures studied include those relating to the modern financial system, the urban newspaper, the concentration camp, and the Internet. Among the authors read are Edwards, Habermas, Haraway, Hughes, Latour, Luhmann, Rabinbach, and Simmel.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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