Introduction

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Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-83

  Alder, Ken ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249318414     PISSN: 00211753     EISSN: 15456994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512832     Document Type: Editorial

References (18)

1. Wiebe Bijker, Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995);
2. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, "How the Refrigerator Got Its Hum," in The Social Shaping of Technology, ed. Donald Mackenzie and Judy Wajcman (Milton Keynes: Open Univ. Press, 1985), pp. 202-218;
3. Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985);
4. and Dianne Vaughn, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1997).
5. Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902; London: Macmillan, 1959).
6. S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin, "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 1979, 205:581-599.
7. George Basalla, The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988).
8. Functionalist adaptation, albeit of a nonoptimizing sort, is still the driving force behind the development of things in Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Useful Things (New York: Vintage, 1992).
9. The canonical collection is Wiebe Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor Pinch, eds., The Social Construction of Technological Systems (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989).
10. The canonical case study is Donald Mackenzie, Inventing Accuracy: An Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).
11. Bruno Latour, Aramis; or The Love of Technology, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1996);
12. Lorraine Daston, ed., Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (New York: Zone, 2004);
13. and Jessica Riskin, ed., Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, forthcoming).
14. Ken Alder, "Making Things the Same: Representation, Tolerance, and the End of the Old Regime in France," Social Studies of Science, 1998, 24:499-545.
15. François Blondel, L'art de jetter les bombes (Leyden, 1685), preface;
16. Clifford Geertz, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture," in The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: Basic, 1973), pp. 3-30 (Geertz borrowed the term from Gilbert Ryle);
17. and Gaston Bachelard, Le nouvel esprit scientifique (Paris: Presses Univ. France, 1949).
18. See the papers introduced by Bill Brown, "Thing Theory," Critical Inquiry, 2001, 28:1-22.