Critical Theory

Week 9 & 10: Critical Theory and Technology

• Which of the following would you consider to be technology?
• Definitions and Quotations on Technology
• What Makes Good Technology?
• Humans and the World, with Technology

A Critical Approach to Technology

• Borgman and the Device Paradigm
• Technological Progress in Stages
• What We Gain, and What We Give Up
• We're All Individuals (...I'm not)
• Technology and Feminism
• Technology and Modernity
• Technology vs. Nature - One View

Nature and Critical Theory

• Definitions of Nature
• Metaphors for Nature

Society as Technology, Technology as Society

• Fordism & Taylorism
• Habermas & Communicative Action
• The Culture Industry: Technology, Culture, and Politics
• What's Wrong with the Culture Industry?

Critical Theory, Science, and Representing the World

• Ancient
  • Four Frames of the Greek World
  • Herodotus' World
  • Strabo's World
  • Ptolemaic Map
  • Madaba Mosaic Map: Palestine
    
    
    
• Mediaeval
  • Pietro Vesconte's World Map
  • Catalan Atlas, detail
  • Henri of Mainz World Map, 1110
  • Imago Mundi
  • Borgia Map, detail
  • Bianco's World Map
  • Vinland Map
  • Mediaeval Mappamundi
  • Sacrobosco's World
  • Hereford Mappamundi facsimile, 1290 (and another version)
  • Hereford Mappamundi original, 1290 (and in situ)
    • Close-ups on this page
  • Isidore of Seville's Tripartite Map, 1472
    
    
    
• Renaissance
  
  
  • Maps in the Modern Era
    
    
  • Christopher Columbus Map
  • Map of the Discoveries of Christopher Columbus, 1493
  • Laon Globe, 1493
  • Canerio World Map, 1502
  • Ruysch World Map, 1507
  • Maggiolo Polar Map, 1511
  • Aurelius World Map, 1514
  • Leonardo Da Vinci's Mappamundi, 1514
  • Peter Apianus, 1520
  • Vespucci World Map, 1526
  • Paris World Globe, 1535
  • Munster, Africa, 1550
  • Zaltieri, North America, 1556
  • Mercator drawing, 1569
  • John Speed World Map, 1629
    
    
    
• Maps and Politics
  
  
  • Maps Are Like...
  • Maps and Science
  • 320 Meanings of "Map"
    
    
• Map Projections
  
  
  • CIA Reference Maps
  • Map Projections - overview
  • Map Projections - technical classifications and examples
  • Mercator Projection and Eurocentrism
    • Eurocentric Maps
    • Mercator Distortions
    • More Mercator Distortions
    • Pseudo Mercator
    • Maps in Public Use
    • Redesigning Mercator
    • Arno Peters, "The Europe-centered Character of our Geographical View of the World and its Correction"
  • Population Cartogram
  • Guelke's Toronto-based projection
  • Oxford, Globe from space
  • Goode's Homolosine
  • Eckert's projection

Clocks & the Measurement of Time

• Clockworks: The Illustrated History of Clocks
• Clocks and Time - Resource Links
• Time-telling Timeline
• A Walk Through Time: History of Time Measurement Through the Ages
• Time Before the Modern Era
• "On A Watch"
• The Birth of Time Zones
  • Daylight Savings Time
  • Time Zone Map

Calendars

• Calendars Through the Ages
• Dates and Dating
• Ancient Greek Sacred Lunar Month
• An Introduction to Calendars
  • Fixed Week Calendar
• Calendars, Time and Chronology Links

Time and Space

• The Discovery of Longitude
• Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation
• Philosophy of Time

Web-based cultural production: Some Examples

Singing Horses - see the main site for lots of Shockwave silliness