Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity (science.culture) 9780226922027, 0226922022

Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity 9780226922034

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swa

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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday 9781474441513

A revisionist account of technology’s role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores

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Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition 1421446553, 9781421446554

How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines an

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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema 9780822391456

Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented tec

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Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity 9780231505468

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Si

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Law And Autonomous Machines: The Co-Evolution Of Legal Responsibility And Technology 1786436590, 9781786436597, 1786436582, 9781786436580

This book sets out a possible trajectory for the co-development of legal responsibility on the one hand and artificial i

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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance 9780801455254, 9780801423031, 9780801497605

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The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil 9780822376156

In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national ident

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Everyday Modernity in China 0295986026, 9780295986029

Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "origina

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Brazilian Steel Town: Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class 9781789204346

Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powe

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