1st Edition

Cultures of Control

Edited By Miriam R. Levin Copyright 2000
294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of essays explores the history of control by looking at a variety of cultural forms, practices, and beliefs. These ideas are examined critically, not only in the light of the possibilities which control technologies seem to offer for resolving human problems, but also the contradictory moral, political, and economic consequences they have had. The discussion takes into account the... Read more
List of Figures, Preface, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of Control, Part 2: Managing Machines, Index

Biography

Levin, Miriam R.