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  1. Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology.Philip J. Pauly (ed.) - 1987 - Oxford University Press.
    The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography traces his career and convincingly argues that Loeb's desire to control organisms, manifested in studies of both reproduction and animal behavior, contributed to a new self-image for biologists. The author places Loeb's experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts, tracing his influence on the development of behaviorism, genetics, and reproductive biology.
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  • Speed and Politics.Paul Virilio & Benjamin H. Bratton - 2006 - Semiotext(E).
    With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. Speed and Politics is the matrix of Virilio's entire work. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and McLuhan, Virilio presents a vision more radically political than that of any of his French contemporaries: speed as the engine of destruction. Speed and Politics presents a topological account of the entire history of humanity, honing in on the technological advances made possible through the militarization (...)
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  • Knowledge and power: toward a political philosophy of science.Joseph Rouse - 1987 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    This lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences through a detailed and original account of science as an interpretive social practice.
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  • The technological society.Jacques Ellul (ed.) - 1964 - New York,: Knopf.
    AbeBooks.com: The Technological Society.
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  • Changing order: replication and induction in scientific practice.Harry Collins - 1985 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    This fascinating study in the sociology of science explores the way scientists conduct, and draw conclusions from, their experiments. The book is organized around three case studies: replication of the TEA-laser, detecting gravitational rotation, and some experiments in the paranormal. "In his superb book, Collins shows why the quest for certainty is disappointed. He shows that standards of replication are, of course, social, and that there is consequently no outside standard, no Archimedean point beyond society from which we can lever (...)
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  • Science in action: how to follow scientists and engineers through society.Bruno Latour - 1987 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context..
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  • Wittgenstein: a social theory of knowledge.David Bloor - 1983 - New York: Columbia University Press.
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  • The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918.Stephen Kern - 1983 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 (1):110-112.
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  • The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in Sociology and History of Technology (25th Anniversary Edition with new preface).Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes & Trevor Pinch (eds.) - 1987 - MIT Press.
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  • (1 other version)Autonomous Technology: Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought.Langdon Winner - 1977 - MIT Press.
    The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our (...)
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  • Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics.Nathan Rosenberg - 1983 - Cambridge University Press.
    Economists have long treated technological phenomena as events transpiring inside a black box and, on the whole, have adhered rather strictly to a self-imposed ordinance not to inquire too seriously into what transpires inside that box. The purpose of Professor Rosenberg's work is to break open and examine the contents of the black box. In so doing, a number of important economic problems be powerfully illuminated. The author clearly shows how specific features of individual technologies have shaped a number of (...)
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  • (1 other version)Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge.David Bloor - 1984 - Human Studies 7 (3):375-386.
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  • Bio-Social Cybernetic Determination, or Responsible Freedom? in Philosophy and Technology II. Information Technology and Computers in Theory and Practice.H. Beck - 1986 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 90:85-95.
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  • (1 other version)The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology.Langdon Winner - 1986 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    "--David Dickson, New York Times Book Review "The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history.
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  • Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology.Philip J. Pauly - 1988 - Journal of the History of Biology 21 (3):521-522.
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