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Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember, Cambridge UP, 1989.
Connerton’s main question in this book is “how the memory of groups” is “conveyed and sustained”(1) which can be explained in the dimension of both political power and psychological mechanism. For him, collective memory of society (social memory) is organized and legitimated through two social activities: commemorative ceremonies… »
Bruno Latour - The Pasteurization of France
Bruno Latour, The Pasteurization of France, Harvard UP, 1988.
What can we write on (the history of) invisible microbes? Maybe we can write on how the medical and biological sciences could have dominated and controlled the diseases and the bacteria. Considering that this book, The Pasteurization of France was originally published in France in 1984 with… »
Social Construction of Technological System
The Social Construction of Technological System: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Ed. Wiebe Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1987.
What is the social constructivism of science and technology? The basic postulate, on which the scholars in the science and technology studies (fields including philosophy, history,… »
The Long and Winding Road: From Road and Rail to Information Superhighway
What can we draw as common issues from Armand Mattelart’s Networking the World:1794-2000 and John Thompson’s “The Media and Modernity” and “The Globalization of Communication”? At first glance, they seem to deal with the history of globalized communication networks in the modern age. While Thompson’s two essays are pieces of overview mostly on global-scale… »
Mary L. Dudziak - September 11 in History
Mary L. Dudziak ed., September 11 in History, Duke Univ. Press, 2003.
This book begins from the assumption that the tragic event of September 11, 2001 was a watershed moment in US and world history. It focuses on the transformative power of September 11 from various perspectives: from the discursive analysis of the US ideologies to… »
Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, U of Chicago Press, 1962 (1996).
In this small but influential book, Kuhn tries to perform two tasks at the same time: writing a history of science and making a theory on scientific revolutions. In some sense, the latter could be a result of the first task, but… »
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