STS.075
Technology and Culture
See description under subject 21A.500[J] . Limited to 50.
Spring 2014
Topics
- Introduction
- Food: If We Are What We Eat, What Are We?
- Class Presentations
Readings
- SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: No readings assigned
- Marx, Karl. “The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret.” In Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy . Translated by Ben Fowkes. Penguin, 1992. ISBN: 9780140445688.
- Babbage, Charles. “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.” Chapter 6 in The Craft Reader . Edited by Glenn Adamson. Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. ISBN: 9781847883032.
- Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. “Twentieth-Century Changes in Household Technology.” Chapter 4 in More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave . Basic Books, 1985. ISBN: 9780465047321.
- Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. “The Technocratic Model of Birth.” In Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore . Edited by Susan Tower Hollis, Linda Pershing, and M. Jane Young. University of Illinois Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780252063138.
- Hamilton-Paterson, James. “Charts and Naming.” Chapter 1 in The Great Deep: The Sea and Its Thresholds . Owlet, 1993. ISBN: 9780805027761.
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 21A.500[J] Prereq: None U (Fall, Spring) 2-0-7 units. HASS-S
Sources
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