...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... counterinsurgency Affective Technologies of War US Female Counterinsurgents and the Performance of Gendered Labor Elizabeth Mesok In 2003 the US military recognized the value of American women’s gendered labor for counterinsurgency strategy during the early stages of the Iraq occupation...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... to modernity, but was rather a by-product of modernity and postmodernity. I also argue that in the context of the Iranian Revolution, technologies of vision as well as gender performance (including veiling, militancy, and appearance) proved central to the formation of a modern gendered citizen-subject and its...

... and an interconnection of media types help us understand the emerging sensus communis , a new possibility for a shared understanding of sense perception, that is coming out of various places, different technologies, and emerging forms. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2009 Reflections Islamic...

...Robb Hernández This essay is a methodological intervention combining the double meaning of “finding AIDS” as an archival technology of information retrieval and navigational network for AIDS debris. The author principally examines the paper scrap illustrations of late Chicano avant-gardist Mundo...

... in recent science and technology studies (STS). Placing labor history and STS in conversation (without presupposing clear or stable boundaries around either field of scholarship), the essay probes the meanings and limitations of the concept of “biological labor” from the vantage points of both fields...

...Brian Beaton; Amelia Acker; Lauren Di Monte; Shivrang Setlur; Tonia Sutherland; Sarah E. Tracy Students and scholars working at the intersections of history and science and technology studies (STS) have an unexpected opportunity when it comes to the growing profession of data science: the chance...

...Sigrid Schmalzer The author relates her experience teaching an undergraduate seminar on the 1970s–1980s movement Science for the People (SftP). She taught the seminar in conjunction with a three-day conference that brought together students, scholars in science and technology studies, and former...

... 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...