Modernity and Technology

Acknowledgments vii Workshop Participants ix The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology 1(32) Thomas J. Misa I Modernity Theory and Technology Studies Theorizing Modernity and Technology 33(40) Philip Brey Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging the Gap 73(32) Andrew Feenberg Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies 105(34) Barbara L. Marshall II Technologies of Modernity Modernity under Construction: Building the Internet in Trinidad 139(22) Don Slater Surveillance Technology and Surveillance Society 161(24) David Lyon Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems 185(42) Paul N. Edwards Creativity of Technology: An Origin of Modernity? 227(30) Junichi Murata III Changing Modernist Regimes The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics 257(22) Johan Schot Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The Problem of Alternatives 279(24) David Hess The Environmental Transformation of the Modern Order 303(24) Arthur P. J. Mol Technology, Modernity, and Development: Creating Social Capabilities in a POLIS 327(32) Haider A. Khan Modernity and Technology---An Afterword 359(14) Arie Rip References 373(36) About the Authors 409(4) Index 413