This special issue of American Quarterly asks powerful and poignant
questions about technology and its effects on our bodies, minds,
families, economies, armies, and academies. Technology is an entry
point for American studies scholars to find new and creative ways
to think through social and cultural problems. The essays in this
collection provide an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways
scholars of culture use the study of technology to examine the
flows, conflicts, tensions, and hazards of American culture.
Re-reading the narrative of U.S. technology, the contributors
move beyond celebrations of exceptional tinkerers and a
deterministic machine-driven sense of progress and form a more
comprehensive understanding of opportunities and responsibilities
that befall a nation that interweaves its identities, labors, and
creative cultures with its machines. Discussing technologies of
transcendence; the cultural work of technological systems;
technology and knowledge systems; and technology, mobility, and the
body; they consider the place of American technologies in an
increasingly globalized, multi-polar, high-tech world and
illuminate the relationship between technological positivism and
the dynamics of imperialism and war.
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