Reframing Technology: An Intellectual History of Thinking Beyond the Machine

by Kent Hufford

For over a hundred years, technological change has been framed using a simple narrative: technology drives history. Reframing Technology challenges this idea of technological determinism through metahistorical and literary analyses that locate the birth of contingent frameworks in the historiography of technology in and around the 1930s. The book also traces how the formal discipline of the History of Technology was remarkably preconfigured by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111396118
• ISBN13: 9783111396118
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"