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	<description>The International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology</description>
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		<title>The Power of Nuclear Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the transnational networks that shape the power of technology in the contemporary world is a complex and difficult proposition. Only a bird’s eye view can reveal the patterns, flows, and imbalances that map the distribution of technologies and the powers they serve or exert. Yet the view from above is always partial; it runs the risk of deceiving us into thinking that some places don’t matter enough to deserve our attention. This is a dangerous illusion. We must land in unfamiliar places and study them on their own terms. The result is necessarily a fractured history.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/hecht-power-of-nuclear-things/</link>
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		<title>Looking Back in Order to Move Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McDermott’s 1969 essay &#8220;Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals&#8221; was once part of the history of technology canon. Revisiting it offers one measure of how far the field has traveled in four decades&#8212;and where it might go.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/cowan-mcdermott-technology-opiate-intellectuals/</link>
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		<title>The Rise of Agribusiness and the Demise of the New Deal Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shane Hamilton&#8217;s history of the independent trucking industry adds a lot to our understanding of the emergence of a low-wage, low-price, retail-driven economy in the postwar United States, and offers a strikingly original explanation of the shift away from New Deal economic liberalism.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/shane-hamilton-trucking-country/</link>
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		<title>The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Donoghue thinks that humanities professors, as we usually imagine them, are on the road to extinction&#8212;and that the humanities have been complicit in their own demise.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/donoghue-last-professors/</link>
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		<title>Megalopolis: An Enduring Enigma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his elegant and thought-provoking <cite>Liquid City: Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast</cite>, John Rennie Short revisits and updates Jean Gottmann&#8217;s conception of the supermetropolitan urban region. ]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/rennie-short-liquid-city/</link>
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		<title>The State of Space History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 150 books have been published through the NASA history program since it was founded by NASA&#8217;s first administrator, T. Keith Glennan. The current strengths of space history are evident in a new volume edited by Steven J. Dick and Roger D. Launius, <cite>Societal Impact of Spaceflight</cite>. Some weaknesses are apparent as well.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/launius-dick-impact-spaceflight/</link>
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		<title>Manufacturing Mass Consumption in the German Democratic Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Material knowledge and recycling matter to people who live in an economy of scarcity and face the gradual deterioration of their built environment. In <cite>Synthetic Socialism</cite>, Eli Rubin makes skillful use of such insights as he traces the history of the East German welfare dictatorship through the ascension of plastic.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2010/01/rubin-synthetic-socialism/</link>
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		<title>The Normativities of Engineers: Engineering Education and History of Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All is not well in the history of technology—or, for that matter, in the engineering profession, at least in Europe and the United States. Now, more than ever, the two fields need each other. An introduction to the October 2009 special issue on the evolving nature of engineering education.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2009/10/normativities-of-engineers/</link>
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		<title>Family Portrait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are we no longer drawn to be photographed next to the disastrous failures of man-made structures?]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2009/10/family-portrait/</link>
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		<title>Energy and Everything Else: Vaclav Smil’s Energy in Nature and Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<cite>Energy in Nature and Society</cite> is not a work of history or of thermodynamics, or a blueprint for dealing with the problems of energy use in the twenty-first century, but rather a work of philosophy, a way of contemplating the interconnectedness of the world.]]></description>
		<link>http://etc.technologyandculture.net/2009/10/energy-in-nature-and-society/</link>
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