...Samer Alatout; Chelsea Schelly This essay tells the history of rural electrification during the New Deal in the United States as a technology of government. In this sense, it argues that rural electrification (the technologies that made it possible, the institutional apparatuses established for its...

...David Serlin In this conversation, historians Breckenridge and Hecht discuss the status of African histories of technology since decolonization. Academic interest in African technology, as well as technologies and infrastructures with significant connections to Africa, began to decline in the mid...

... on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents as archives of intimacy and trauma respectively. These archives of intimacy and trauma are technologies of mobility—not only moving migrants...

...Alex Lichtenstein Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 PUBLIC HISTORY Black Labor And Technological Change At A National Historic Landmark: Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama...

...Grace Elizabeth Hale; Beth Loffreda Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 Clocks for Seeing: Technologies of Memory, Popular Aesthetics, and the Home Movie Grace Elizabeth Hale and Beth Loffreda We all...

...Allen Feldman 2003 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2003 06-Feldman.cs 11/19/02 3:59 PM Page 58 REFLECTIONS AND REPORTS Political Terror and the Technologies of Memory: Excuse, Sacrifice, Commodification...

... subject to it. The conversation they initiate intervenes in what Terry calls the “labyrinth of excuses” that sanction warfare. In their feminist cultural studies approaches to surveillance, security, and war, they disrupt the refrains that position war as liberatory or beneficial and technology as capable...

...Anthony Ryan Hatch African Americans face ongoing technological assault in the United States most visibly at the hands of state agents. Technological transformations that have simultaneously enabled the oppression of African Americans have also shaped African American resistance movements...

... that considers how gender matters to war, how gendered subjectivities are constituted by, and instrumental in, US imperialism, and what potentially subversive subjects may emerge as a result. Affective Technologies of War US Female Counterinsurgents and the Performance of Gendered Labor Elizabeth Mesok...

...Lyell Davies Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller's book Greening the Media explores the impact of information communication technologies (ICTs) and consumer electronics (CEs) on our environment and on the lives of the workers involved in the manufacture or disposal of these technologies. In their book...

... three decades, the body that can see, hear, walk, and communicate normatively and/or without assistive technology—no matter how marginal its social or political status—remains consistently centered and remarkably unproblematized. This essay draws attention to this woeful lack of engagement...

... the display of a rather formalized pantheon of heroes, uniformed mannequins, guns, and pieces of old technology. A second, more elusive (though essential) brand of corporate identity points to the police as archaeologists of a hidden life. It blends symbols and professional artifacts with a display...

...Yingchuan Yang Abstract In the 1950s and 1960s, rural radio networks were erected all across China, operated and maintained by local residents who worked as technicians, correspondents, and broadcasters. This article introduces the radio network as a complex and diverse technological infrastructure...

... information and communication technologies and global social movements, the problem of digital labor, the rise of open-source software and open-access scholarship, and the issues arising in digitizing historical archives. © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 Framing...

... and Anonymous target machines of a specific kind — labor-saving machines in the case of the Luddites, machines that restrict access to information and information technology in the case of Anonymous. Second, both Anonymous and Ned Ludd are collective pseudonyms, or “multiple-use names,” whose wild circulation...

...Wafaa Bilal Wafaa Bilal uses interactive technologies, new media, and performance to create dynamic platforms for engagement and discussion. While many of his works deal directly with war, racism, and current political realities, he also explores the more personal, cultural, and collective realms...

... of “creative capitalism,” “creative cities,” and the “creative economy,” as well as the stark realities of precariousness and self-exploitation that animate labor today. Not only is the derivative the emblematic technology of a financial system based on the quasi-scientific management of risk, it also names...

... of capitalism. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, it appeared as if finance's voice had finally spoken, just as the introduction of sound technology gave the appearance of an embodied, laboring voice. As the voice and finance were both always present throughout, the article attempts to locate...

... meaningful distinctions between violent and peaceful political activity. In recent years, the FBI has become the leading control agency in what scholars and popular writers term the “surveillance society.” The FBI monitors public spaces and has deployed increasingly sophisticated technological surveillance...

..., especially those on former US military bases, this article investigates linkages between call center technologies and global sexual economies. Combining a sexual fields analytic framework with new empire scholarship, this essay examines how subjects in the global outsourcing industry participate...