Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the "big" politics of politicians and statesmen to the "small" politics of users and interest groups. Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering the politics and the practices of one of the most...
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushc...
Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultural world views. Focussing on a range of energy types, from electricity and oil to bioenergy, this volume analyzes the social, cultural and political concepts and discourses of energy and their implementation and materialization within technical systems, applications, media representations and consumer practice. By examining and connecting production, mediation and consumption aspects from an international and interdisciplinary perspective, the...
Abundant, salutary, problematic - energy makes history. As a symbol, resource and consumer good, it shapes technologies, politics, societies and cultu...
Homo faber und homo ludens haben bisher kaum miteinander gearbeitet, geschweige denn gespielt. Das zu andern ist Anliegen dieses Buches. Welche Bedeutung hat Technik fur das Spiel? Wie pragt umgekehrt das Spiel die Technik und wie verandert sich das Verhalten von Menschen, die in unterschiedlichster Form mit Technik und mit Hilfe von Technik spielen? Welche Folgen hat das Spiel fur die Technikakzeptanz und Prozesse der Technikaneignung? Diesen Fragen sind die Beitrage des disziplinubergreifenden Sammelbandes gewidmet. Das Thema Technik und Spiel wird aus der Sicht der Philosophie,...
Homo faber und homo ludens haben bisher kaum miteinander gearbeitet, geschweige denn gespielt. Das zu andern ist Anliegen dieses Buches. Welche Bedeut...