Bibliograph

Fish sticks, sports bras, and aluminum cans, the politics of everyday technologies, Paul R. Josephson

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Fish sticks, sports bras, and aluminum cans, the politics of everyday technologies, Paul R. Josephson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fish sticks, sports bras, and aluminum cans

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

906446551

Responsibility statement

Paul R. Josephson

Sub title

the politics of everyday technologies

Summary

Historian Paul R. Josephson explores the surprising origins, political contexts, and social meanings of ordinary objects. Drawing on archival materials, technical journals, interviews, and field research, this engaging collection of essays reveals the forces that shape (and are shaped by) everyday objects

Table Of Contents

Introduction : technostories -- The ocean's hotdog : the fish stick -- The sports bra : gender and technology -- Sugar, bananas and aluminum cans : technology, colonialism and post colonialism -- Mass produced nutrition : industrial potatoes and industrial sweeteners -- Technology and (natural) disasters you cannot fool (mother) nature -- Big artifacts : technological symbolism and state power -- Conclusion : what have we learned from this? books, bicycles, and other things that go bump in the light

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