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Lecture notes.| LEC # | TOPICS | OUTLINES |
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| Introductory Themes |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Theories of Technology and Culture | (PDF) |
| Theme 1: Biology and Biotechnology |
| 3 | Technologies of Sex and Gender: Reproduction, Birth, Risk | |
| 4 | Technologies of Race: Medical Experimentation | (PDF) |
| 5 | Technologies of Death: Risk and the Biopolitics of Radiation | (PDF) |
| 6 | Genetically Modified Food | |
| Theme 2: Computers and Information Technologies |
| 7 | Sociologies of Computing | (PDF) |
| 8 | From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Life | |
| 9 | Our Machines, Our Music: From White Noise to Black Noise | (PDF) |
| Theme 3: Technological Infrastructure and Social Forms |
| 10 | Infrastructure | (PDF) |
| 11 | Trains, Automobiles, Organs | (PDF) |
| 12 | Student Paper Presentations | |
| 13 | Party and Student Paper Presentations | |