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Cover Essay: How to Interpret Postcards. 封面文章：如何解读明信片。
IF 0.8 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01
Lynn Spigel
{"title":"Cover Essay: How to Interpret Postcards.","authors":"Lynn Spigel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay demonstrates the value of postcards as visual evidence for historical research. Focusing on midcentury hotel and motel postcards, it offers a brief history of postcard production technologies and techniques and explores visual strategies they employed. While analyzing these images, the essay also considers how postcards deleted certain aspects of the scenes they depicted, rendering unpleasant objects invisible to the observer. Therefore, this essay argues that what is absent from the image is as significant as what is present.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383563","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 Waterwheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting, and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice. Lizzafusina的水车：16世纪威尼斯的技术创新、专利和实际需要。
IF 0.8 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01
David Gentilcore
{"title":"The Waterwheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting, and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice.","authors":"David Gentilcore","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the reliance of watermen (acquaroli) in early modern Venice on increasingly sophisticated waterwheels, designed, produced, and patented by competing inventors during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, to load fresh water supplies that supplemented the rainwater on which the city otherwise depended for its freshwater needs. Using a range of archival and printed sources, this article examines the tools that delivered water to the watermen's barges and the state-sponsored competition this spurred among inventors. More broadly, the article investigates how Venice's patent process compared to those elsewhere in sixteenth-century Europe, with specific attention to the status of petitioners, contemporary notions of expertise, knowledge flows, and the role of the state.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 1","pages":"107-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383610","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 Guild and the Laboratory: Shifting Sensory Regimes at Stockholms Bryggerier in the Early Twentieth Century. 公会与实验室：20世纪初斯德哥尔摩布里格尔的感官体制的转变。
IF 0.8 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01
Ingemar Pettersson, Daniel Normark
{"title":"The Guild and the Laboratory: Shifting Sensory Regimes at Stockholms Bryggerier in the Early Twentieth Century.","authors":"Ingemar Pettersson, Daniel Normark","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article engages with scholarship on sensory history, techno-science, and the political economy of taste, illustrating how flavor evaluation became an industrialized, professionalized practice through a case study of Stockholms bryggerier, a Swedish brewer. Through these shifts, the brewing industry redefined taste as a techno-scientific concern, reshaping professional roles and positioning sensory assessment as a critical site of negotiation between traditional craftsmanship and scientific authority in twentieth-century food industries. From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, Stockholms bryggerier shifted from a \"guild regime\" of sensory judgment, led by traditionally trained brewmasters, to a \"laboratory regime\" grounded in techno-scientific methods. Central to this transformation was the difference test, which standardized flavor assessment amid political tensions between Sweden's temperance movement and the brewing industry over beer's alcohol content and sensory appeal. This article shows how the difference test transformed sensory practices into a politically and scientifically mediated process.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 1","pages":"185-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383573","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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Roundtable: Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change. 圆桌会议：环境变化世界中的全球技术史。
IF 0.8 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01
Erik van der Vleuten, Evelien de Hoop, Jonas van der Straeten, Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Animesh Chatterjee, Matthias Heymann, Prakash Kumar
{"title":"Roundtable: Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change.","authors":"Erik van der Vleuten, Evelien de Hoop, Jonas van der Straeten, Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Animesh Chatterjee, Matthias Heymann, Prakash Kumar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the face of diverse and uneven environmental crises across the globe, ongoing efforts to \"globalize\" the history of technology field may be considered urgent. In doing so, however, we risk uncritically exporting the norms and practices of a predominantly Western-centric field-an arguably colonial act. This roundtable explores four areas of contention: how to conceptualize \"the global\"; why, how and with whom to study \"history\" amid threatened \"futures\"; how to articulate and delineate the field's subject matter (\"technology\"); and how researchers can collaborate equitably within and across diverse sites around the globe. Building on these discussions, we propose three themes for further conversation: how to transcend the North-South binary without disregarding its critical insights; how to balance the use of locally specific vocabularies with quasi-global terms; and how to develop collaborative relationships with those whose histories historians document, fostering joint experimentation with \"historiographical interventions.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 1","pages":"11-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143383595","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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How Irritants Shape Infrastructure Engineering: The Thing-Power of Diversion Sluice Gates at the Guri Dam, Venezuela, 1963-69. 刺激物如何塑造基础设施工程：委内瑞拉古里大坝引水闸门的物动力，1963-69。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a965822
Frederik Schulze
{"title":"How Irritants Shape Infrastructure Engineering: The Thing-Power of Diversion Sluice Gates at the Guri Dam, Venezuela, 1963-69.","authors":"Frederik Schulze","doi":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965822","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965822","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From a new materialist perspective, infrastructures are contingent and animated by agential forces, including the matter and objects from which they are constructed. They do not always behave as intended; instead, infrastructures-or parts of them-can become irritants. This article introduces the idea of \"irritants\" to highlight the disruptive and generative capacities of the material world. Through a case study of the Guri Dam in Venezuela during the 1960s, it examines how engineers responded to the jamming sluice gates that threatened the dam's stability. Drawing on Jane Bennett's notion of \"thing-power,\" the article attributes agency to the gates themselves. Initially, engineers lacked a clear solution; and only after a prolonged process of experimentation and the introduction of new technical objects, such as custom-built grids, was the issue resolved. The article contributes to new materialist scholarship by exploring microhistorical approaches to materiality and emphasizing the agency of nonhuman entities in infrastructural history.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 3","pages":"731-750"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734862","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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Erratum. 勘误表。
IF 0.8 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a956845
{"title":"Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/tech.2025.a956845","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2025.a956845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 2","pages":"viii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144051852","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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Images as Portable Objects in the Historian's Toolkit. 图像作为历史学家工具箱中的可移动对象。
IF 0.8 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a956846
Alka Raman
{"title":"Images as Portable Objects in the Historian's Toolkit.","authors":"Alka Raman","doi":"10.1353/tech.2025.a956846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a956846","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The image on the cover of this issue of Technology and Culture features an early modern Indian textile, popularly known as \"chintz\" in the Western world. The image depicts stylized flowers surrounded by curving leaves on meandering branches-a colourful artisanal rendition of imaginative flora on a utilitarian object. This essay argues that material objects, such as this chintz, contain embedded knowledge necessary for understanding techniques used in their production and for replicating these objects in new contexts. It further contends that magnified images of historical objects serve as movable microscopic pieces of the objects, enabling detailed visual examinations often not possible with the objects themselves. By foregrounding the use of objects as historical sources, the essay demonstrates the value of incorporating images as essential resources in the historian's research methodology.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 2","pages":"313-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144041882","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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Ground Realities: Material Interactions in the Construction of the Buenos Aires Subway, 1933-44. 地面现实：1933-44年布宜诺斯艾利斯地铁建设中的物质相互作用。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a965825
María Ignacia Jeldes Olivares, Paul Sprute, Monika Motylińska
{"title":"Ground Realities: Material Interactions in the Construction of the Buenos Aires Subway, 1933-44.","authors":"María Ignacia Jeldes Olivares, Paul Sprute, Monika Motylińska","doi":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965825","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965825","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How does the material world intervene in assembling infrastructure? This study examines the extension of the Buenos Aires subway during the 1930s and 1940s, using the concepts of \"constructability\" and \"ability\" as analytical lenses to reveal three interpretative layers-tunneling, concrete, and soil-that reflect varying degrees of human-nonhuman interaction and agency. By foregrounding the material aspects of the subway-building process, the article shows how concrete, locally available materials, and the urban environment challenged and recalibrated the German contractors' managerial approach. While acknowledging the ways materials can support or constrain human action, this article disputes the idea that materials possess independent agency. Instead, it calls for a more precise understanding of the physical aspects of construction that shape the material-human interface.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 3","pages":"799-826"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734861","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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Imagination Over Innovation: The Experienced Freedom of Movement of Nineteenth-Century European Travelers. 想象胜过创新：19世纪欧洲旅行者的自由体验。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a965820
Anna P H Geurts
{"title":"Imagination Over Innovation: The Experienced Freedom of Movement of Nineteenth-Century European Travelers.","authors":"Anna P H Geurts","doi":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965820","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965820","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article challenges conventional cultural histories of mobility by rethinking the impact of technology in nineteenth-century Europe. Drawing on nearly one hundred European cross-border travel accounts-especially by travelers from the northern Netherlands-it argues that mobility depended less on technological innovation than on what travelers imagined technology could do. Rather than being driven by inventions, satisfactory travel hinged on the availability of \"ordinary\" technologies, dense transport networks, reliable services, dry weather, affordable and socially accepted modes of transport, and travelers' bodies' perceived capacities. Meanwhile, over time, it was broader economic transformations and shifts in mentality that most deeply reshaped patterns of travel. Responding to calls from science and technology studies, the article redefines technology as a socially specific repertoire of imaginable practices rather than a sequence of modernizing breakthroughs.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 3","pages":"675-710"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734864","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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Introduction: The Challenge of New Materialism for the History of Infrastructure. 导论：新唯物主义对基础设施史的挑战。
IF 0.7 3区 哲学
Technology and Culture Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/tech.2025.a965821
Jan Hansen, Frederik Schulze
{"title":"Introduction: The Challenge of New Materialism for the History of Infrastructure.","authors":"Jan Hansen, Frederik Schulze","doi":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965821","DOIUrl":"10.1353/tech.2025.a965821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Do infrastructures possess thing-power? Do they act independently of humans, and how might materiality help us better describe the relationship between humans and infrastructures? This special section explores the promises and limits of new materialism for the history of infrastructure, complicating conventional understandings of the built world. New materialist approaches posit that the material world has intrinsic capacities-forms of agency that operate beyond human intent. While infrastructures are human-made, their assembly and operation involve numerous nonhuman actors and forces outside human control. The articles in this section approach infrastructures through material artifacts such as jamming sluice gates, minuscule sand particles, toxic creosote, crumbling concrete, and even the ionosphere. They examine how humans responded to these substances, structural components, expected material properties, and unknown matter like the ionosphere. This perspective reframes our understanding of infrastructure, knowledge production, and human-technology relations by foregrounding the thing-power embedded in the human-made environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":49446,"journal":{"name":"Technology and Culture","volume":"66 3","pages":"711-730"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144734865","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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