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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
ISBN: 9780262522953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of South Africans during apartheid as European, Asian, colored, or black; and the separation of machine- from hand-washables have in common? All are examples of classification -- the scaffolding of information infrastructures. In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification... What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification of So... |
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Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology
ISBN: 9780791425664 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, feminism, "nonhumans," and work practices as shaping scientific and technical knowledge. In addition to theoretical contributions, the authors cover biotechnology, computing, representations and space, aerospace engineering, and a variety of ethical perspectives and controversies in these domains.
Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on the role of materials, f...
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