Lecturas obligatorias

STS.069 La tecnología en un mundo peligroso - Lista de lecturas

Beck, Ulrich. The Risk Society. Traducido por Mark Ritter. London: Sage, 1992, Part I, págs. 1-44.

Castells, Manuel. "Prologue: the Net and the Self." En The Rise of the Network Society. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000 [1996], págs. 1-27.

Castells, Manuel. "Communal Heavens." En The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, págs. 1-20 y 65-67.

Castells, Manuel. "Conclusion: Social Change in the Network Society." En The Power of Identity, págs. 354-362.

Castells, Manuel. "Death Denied," y "Instant Wars." En The Rise of the Network Society, págs. 481-491.

Castells, Manuel. "The Other Face of the Earth: Social Movements against the New Global Order." En The Power of Identity, págs. 68-72 y 97-109.

Castells, Manuel. "The Perverse Connection: The Global Criminal Economy." En End of Millennium. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, págs. 165-205.

Castells, Manuel. "A Powerless State?" En The Power of Identity, págs. 254-269.

Castells, Manuel. "The Rise of the Fourth World." En End of Millennium, págs. 70-95 y 149-165.

Chisholm, Sallie W., et al. "Dis-Crediting Ocean Fertilization," Science 294 (12 de octubre de 2001): 309-310.

Galison, Peter. "An Accident of History." In Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century. Publicado por Galison y Alex Roland. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000, págs. 2-43.

Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990, cap. 1, 3 y 4, págs. 1-53 y 79-150.

Gras, Alain. "Big is Beautiful." Forthcoming in "Forum on Rethinking Technology in the Aftermath of September 11," History and Technology 19, 1 (2003).

Hughes, Thomas P. "The Evolution of Large Technological Systems." En The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Edited by Wiebe Bijker, Thomas Hughes y Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1987, págs. 51-82.

Hughes, Thomas P. "MIT as System-Builder: SAGE." En Rescuing Prometheus. Nueva York: Pantheon, 1998, págs. 15-67.

MacKenzie, Donald. "Missile Accuracy: A Case Study in the Social Processes of Technological Change." In The Social Construction of Technological Systems. Publicado por Wiebe Bijker, Thomas Hughes y Trevor Pinch. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1987, págs. 195-222.

MacKenzie, Donald. "Computer-Related Accidental Death." En Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998 [1996], págs. 185-214.

MacKenzie, Donald. "Introduction." En Knowing Machines, págs. 1-11.

McEvoy, Arthur F. "Working Environments." In Accidents in History: Injuries, Fatalities, and Social Relations. Publicado por Roger Cooter y Bill Luckin. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, págs. 59-89.

McKellar, Shelley. "Artificial Hearts--A Technological Fix More Monstrous Than Miraculous?" Documento presentado en la Technological Fix Conference, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, 4-5 de octubre de 2002.

McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature. Nueva York: Random House, 1989, págs. 3-29.

Mindell, David. War, Technology, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 2000. Introducción, cap. 4, y final de la conclusión, págs. 1-10, 61-69 y 144-150.

Morison, Elting. Machines, Men, and Modern Times. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1966, cap. 2, 4 y 6, págs. 17-44, 67-87 y 98-122.

Mumford, Lewis. "Technology and the Nature of Man." Technology and Culture 7, 3 (verano de 1966): 303-317.

Murakami, Haruki. Underground. Traducido por Alfred Birnbaum y Philip Gabriel. Nueva York: Random House/Vintage, 2000, págs. 3-44, 127-131, 150-153, 215-241 y 317-332.

Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Nueva York: Basic Books, 1984, chap. 3, págs. 62-100.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1986 [1977], caps. 7, 8, 9, 10 y Excursi, págs. 113-170.

Vest, Charles M. "Transparencia, oportunidad y seguridad en las universidades: un reto nacional." Discurso a los abogados universitarios y de la Asociación Nacional. Boston, Massachusetts, 26 de junio de 2002. (PDF)

Weart, Spencer. Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, caps. 6, 11, 18 y conclusión, págs. 103-127, 199-214, 348-374 y 421-426.

Williams, Rosalind H. Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002, cap. 1, págs. 1-28.

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STS.092 Acontecimientos actuales desde una perspectiva científica, tecnológica y social - Lista de selección de críticas

Adas, Michael. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Alder, Ken. The Measure of All Things. Nueva York: Free Press, 2002.

Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. 2ª ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000 [1996].

Castells, Manuel. The Power of Identity. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. Nueva York: Basic Books, 1983.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. Nueva York: Hill y Wang, 1983.

Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis. Nueva York: W.W. Norton, 1991.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz. London: Verso, 1990.

Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis. Nueva York: Penguin Books, 1989.

Hughes, Thomas P. Rescuing Prometheus. Nueva York: Pantheon Books, 1998.

Leslie, Stuart W. The Cold War and American Science. Nueva York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

MacKenzie, Donald. Knowing Machines. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998 [1996].

MacKenzie, Donald. Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.

Malone, Patrick. The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991.

McDougall, Walter . ….the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. Nueva York: Basic Books, 1985.

McNeill, J. R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th Century World. Nueva York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

McNeill, William. The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since AD 1000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Mindell, David. Between Human and Machine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Mindell, David. War, Technology and Experience aboard the USS Monitor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Morison, Elting. Men, Machines, and Modern Times. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1966.

Parker, Geoffrey. The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800. 2nd ed. Nueva York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Nueva York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space in the 19th Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986 [1977].

Smith, Merritt Roe. Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.

Smith, Merritt Roe, ed. Military Enterprise and Technological Change. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.

Traweek, Sharon. Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988 [1986].

White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Nueva York: Hill and Wang, 1995.