Speaking of journals and technology, the special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics on the question concerning technology has now been published and it is apparently freely available for a month (hat tip to Object-Oriented Philosophy). It is set to become a definitive point of reference on how technology matters for the social sciences, given the comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the problem provided by some of the most interesting people working on the subject (or shall we say object). This also explains the conundrum of why an economics journal had commissioned a philosopher (Graham Harman) to write an article about Heidegger’s take on technology, which really intrigued me at the time. Here are my initial ruminations on Harman’s article from May 2009. Needless to say, this Cambridge J. Econ. special issue is very close to the ANTHEM focus, namely the overlap and communication between Heideggerian, STS, and economic approaches to the question of technology.
Here is the list of articles and contributors:
The Nature of Technology
Philip Faulkner, Clive Lawson, and Jochen Runde: Theorising technology
Philosophy of technology
Graham Harman: Technology, objects and things in Heidegger
Albert Borgmann: Reality and technology
Andrew Feenberg: Marxism and the critique of social rationality: from surplus value to the politics of technology
Peter Kroes: Engineering and the dual nature of technical artefacts
Wiebe E. Bijker: How is technology made?—That is the question!
Trevor Pinch: On making infrastructure visible: putting the non-humans to rights
Tim Ingold: The textility of making
Marcia-Anne Dobres: Archaeologies of technology
Robert Aunger: What’s special about human technology?
Wanda J. Orlikowski: The sociomateriality of organisational life: considering technology in management research
Judy Wajcman: Feminist theories of technology
Technology and Economics
J. Stan Metcalfe: Technology and economic theory
Giovanni Dosi and Marco Grazzi: On the nature of technologies: knowledge, procedures, artifacts and production inputs
Carlota Perez: Technological revolutions and techno-economic paradigms
Tony Smith: Technological change in Capitalism: some Marxian themes
Anne Mayhew: Clarence Ayres, technology, pragmatism and progress
16 January 2010 at 11:57 pm |
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