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Coal in Modern Britain: A Social and Cultural History from 1830 to the Second World War by Charles-François Mathis (review) 《现代英国的煤炭：从1830年到第二次世界大战的社会文化史》作者：查尔斯-弗朗索瓦·马西斯
3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a988882
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Crafting the Maritime Metalwork: Global Tin, Local Hands, and Pewter Innovation in South China. 海上金属制品的制作：全球锡，当地人手，和中国南方的锡创新。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980965
Yijun Wang
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Powering Modernity: Fossil Capitalism and Japan's Electrification. 现代性的动力：化石资本主义和日本的电气化。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980970
Chenxiao Li
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Losing the Salmon: Technology, Science, and Ecological Decline on the Rhine. 失去鲑鱼：莱茵河上的技术、科学和生态衰退。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980963
Nil Disco
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Beyond Innovation-Speak: Swiss Telephone Workers and the Making of Technical Identity. 超越创新：瑞士电话工作者和技术认同的形成。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996498
Riccardo Ferrigato
{"title":"Beyond Innovation-Speak: Swiss Telephone Workers and the Making of Technical Identity.","authors":"Riccardo Ferrigato","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a996498","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2026.a996498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines how maintenance workers in Switzerland's Post, Telephone and Telegraph company (PTT) understood and represented their own labor between 1921 and 1959. Drawing on union magazines and previously unpublished sources, it argues that maintenance was not inherently invisible or undervalued but became the object of ongoing struggles over status, expertise, and technological identity. As Switzerland's telephone network expanded, automated, and aged, workers moved from identifying themselves as builders of infrastructure to presenting maintenance as a specialized and indispensable form of technical labor. These shifting representations emerged through debates about outsourcing, training, mechanization, and professional recognition, including disputes over the very name of the job. By tracing how workers alternately reproduced and challenged the \"innovation-speak\" that marginalized repair labor, the article reframes maintenance as a political and discursive category rather than merely a technical activity. In doing so, it contributes to the historiography of infrastructure, labor, and maintenance in modern communications systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 3","pages":"741-766"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Problem with the Sex Toy Narrative: Design and Medical Intent in Early Vibrators. 性玩具叙述的问题：早期振动器的设计和医疗意图。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a996503
Dianya Mia Hua
{"title":"The Problem with the Sex Toy Narrative: Design and Medical Intent in Early Vibrators.","authors":"Dianya Mia Hua","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a996503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a996503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article challenges the dominant interpretation of early twentieth-century vibrators as inherently sexual objects. Rather than reading vibrators retrospectively through the lens of the modern sex toy industry, it examines hand-cranked and early electric devices from the perspective of design, use, and medical context. Drawing on artifacts, manuals, advertisements, and medical literature from Britain and the United States, the article argues that early vibrators were shaped primarily by therapeutic and cosmetic practices linked to massage medicine, gynecological therapy, and orificial philosophy. Attachments later interpreted as \"phallic\" or sexually suggestive emerged from clinical assumptions about circulation, nerve stimulation, and rectal or vaginal treatment rather than from explicit erotic design. By foregrounding design logic over retrospective meaning, the article reframes the vibrator as a medical and consumer technology whose sexual associations developed historically rather than existing from the outset. In doing so, it argues for a more historically grounded approach to technologies whose meanings shifted over time.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 3","pages":"897-920"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148664851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Predictive Numbers: Labor, Data, and Power in the U.S. Oil Industry. 预测数字：美国石油工业的劳动力、数据和权力。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a988853
Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre
{"title":"Predictive Numbers: Labor, Data, and Power in the U.S. Oil Industry.","authors":"Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a988853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a988853","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Histories of data and computing have rarely treated extractive industries as foundational, yet this article argues that the U.S. oil industry was a critical site in the rise of predictive, numerical ways of knowing. Tracing the transformation of subsurface knowledge from embodied, sensory labor to increasingly abstracted, numerical, and computational forms between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the article centers oilfield services and geophysical work. Drawing on labor history, the history of science and technology, and the history of data visualization, it shows how seismic techniques reorganized workplace hierarchies, displaced experiential expertise, and expanded white-collar analytical labor. In doing so, the article reframes oil as an institutional foundation for numerical authority and early computational practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 2","pages":"459-484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147870173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Constructing the State: Materiality, Imaginaries and the Politics of Chilean Electrification, 1939-43. 建构国家：物质性、想象与智利电气化的政治，1939- 1943。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a988856
José Soto Vejar, Cecilia V Ibarra Mendoza
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Beyond Diffusion: Maintenance, Craft, and the Rise of Technical Prestige in Colonial Lima. 超越传播：维护、工艺和殖民地利马技术声望的崛起。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a988855
Ruggero Pace Gravina
{"title":"Beyond Diffusion: Maintenance, Craft, and the Rise of Technical Prestige in Colonial Lima.","authors":"Ruggero Pace Gravina","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a988855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a988855","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Challenging diffusionist accounts of early modern technology, this article argues that maintenance labor-not invention or transfer alone-drove technological change in colonial Lima. Focusing on the import and upkeep of mechanical clocks following the city's founding in 1535, it shows how sustained maintenance enabled artisans, including enslaved laborers, to develop expertise, authority, and social mobility. Drawing on municipal contracts and artisanal records, the article reframes early modern technological exchange as an artisan-driven, urban process linking craft, governance, and technical prestige.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 2","pages":"517-535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147870229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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History of Technology in Russia: Navigating a Shifting Terrain. 俄罗斯技术史：在不断变化的地形中航行。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2026.a980971
Elena Kochetkova
{"title":"History of Technology in Russia: Navigating a Shifting Terrain.","authors":"Elena Kochetkova","doi":"10.1353/tech.2026.a980971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2026.a980971","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay discusses the history of technology in Russia, focusing on several major developments. Its twofold aim is to provide insights into the current state of research, with a brief reference to the technological history that evolved during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, and to offer an overview of recent Russian-language publications for an international readership. It focuses on enviro-tech as a prominent research direction in Russia that highlights the ongoing changes in institutional landscapes and thematic priorities. The essay demonstrates that the history of technology in Russia has yet to develop into a fully coherent field of research or education. Research on past technologies has evolved along two still-coexisting paths: a primarily engineering-focused history rooted in traditions of the Soviet period and a more recent interdisciplinary approach situated at the intersection of environmental history, the history of science, and related fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"67 1","pages":"227-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146100933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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