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Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies
Paul R. Josephson
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Description for Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies
Paperback. Students of consumer studies and the history of technology, as well as scholars and general readers, will be captivated by Josephson's insights into the complex relationship between society and technology. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. .
Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimination laws? What do simple decisions about where to build a road or whether to buy into the carbon economy have to do with Hurricane Katrina or the Fukushima nuclear disaster? How did massive flood control projects on the Mississippi River and New Deal dams on the Columbia River lead to the ubiquity of high fructose corn syrup? And what explains the creation-and continued popularity-of the humble fish stick? In Fish Sticks, ... Read more
Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimination laws? What do simple decisions about where to build a road or whether to buy into the carbon economy have to do with Hurricane Katrina or the Fukushima nuclear disaster? How did massive flood control projects on the Mississippi River and New Deal dams on the Columbia River lead to the ubiquity of high fructose corn syrup? And what explains the creation-and continued popularity-of the humble fish stick? In Fish Sticks, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417837
SKU
V9781421417837
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About Paul R. Josephson
Paul R. Josephson is a professor of history at Colby College. He is the author of Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989 and The Conquest of the Russian Arctic.
Reviews for Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies
Josephson's conclusions are guaranteed to make you think of the modern world and its interconnectedness in a different light. `Sometimes,' he writes `you should just say, no, refuse that new-fangled fish stick or aluminum soda can or smart phone or online source.'
Cosmos
... At its best is original and instructive and compresses a great deal of technical ... Read more
Cosmos
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