Igor Vamos, associate professor of electronic media and culture jammer-- along with Andy Bichlbaum--has premiered their new movie, THE YES MEN. FIX THE WORLD and received media attention for holding a faux news conference on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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2008 Nancy D. Campbell, JP Olsen, Luke Walden From 1935 until 1975, just about every junkie in the U.S. busted for drugs went to the Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Equal parts federal prison, treatment center, farm, and research laboratory, the Narcotic Farm was designed to rehabilitate addicts and help researchers discover a cure for drug addiction. Written by authors and filmmakers JP Olsen and Luke Walden, with drug policy expert Nancy Campbell, The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts (Abrams; October; 2008 pages, 200 b&w and color illustrations; US $29.95; CAN $32.95) chronicles the tumultuous years of this controversial institution with interviews, film stills, press clippings and rare and unpublished photographs and documents. Contact: Nancy D. Campbell |
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Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research 2008 Nancy D. Campbell Discovering Addiction brings the history of human and animal experimentation in addiction science into the present with a wealth of archival research and dozens of oral-history interviews with addiction researchers. Professor Campbell examines the birth of addiction science---the National Academy of Sciences's project to find a pharmacological fix for narcotics addiction in the late 1930s---and then explores the human and primate experimentation involved in the succeeding studies of the "opium problem," revealing how addiction science became "brain science" by the 1990s. Contact: Nancy D. Campbell |
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Calculating a Natural World: Scientists, Engineers, and Computers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research 2006 Atsushi Akera During the Cold War, the field of computing advanced rapidly within a complex institutional context. In Calculating a Natural World, Atsushi Akera describes the complicated interplay of academic, commercial, and government and military interests that produced a burst of scientific discovery and technological innovation in 1940s and 1950s America. This was the era of big machines--the computers that made the reputations of IBM and of many academic laboratories--and Akera uses the computer as a historical window on the emerging infrastructure of American scientific and engineering research. The military-industrial complex is often spoken of as a coherent and unified power, but Akera argues that it was the tensions as much as the convergences among military, business, and academic forces that fueled scientific and technological advances. Contact: Atsushi Akera |
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Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy and Social Justice Routledge 2000 Nancy D. Campbell
Drug-addicted women haunt the political imaginary of drug policy. From the white, high society women who were the "opium vampires" of the 1920s, to the ethnic "girl junkies" of the early 1950s heroin epidemic, to the "crack moms" and babies of the 1990s, female addicts have been used to justify changes in drug control policy. This book traces how women who use illicit drugs are represented in U.S. drug science, policy, and culture. The book contributes to feminist science studies; cultural studies of science, medicine, and technology; and the history of public policy. Contact: Nancy Campbell |
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2007 Edited by Arie W. Kruglanski and Torry Higgins 'If you thought the first edition of this handbook was good, this new edition is even better. This volume presents a thoroughly fresh, cutting-edge vision of what social psychology is and where we are heading in the 21st century. The list of topics is innovative, and the authors, without exception, are leaders in the field. The Handbook exemplifies the hard-nosed attitude toward theory, process, and evidence that characterizes modern social psychology, while eloquently illuminating the principles that make social psychological knowledge relevant across all facets of human life. This refreshingly forward-looking work is sure to occupy a central place in the literature for many years.' - Harry Reis, PhD, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, USA Contact: Linnda Caporael |
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African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design Rutgers University Press, 1999
Ron Eglash, Ph.D. Drawing on interviews with African designers, artists, and scientists, Ron Eglash investigates fractals in African architecture, traditional hairstyling, textiles, sculpture, painting, carving, metalwork, religion, games, practical craft, quantitative techniques, and symbolic systems. He also examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry. His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics, African culture, anthropology, and computer simulations. Contact: Ron Eglash |
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2001 Kim Fortun
The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Contact: Kim Fortun Kim Fortun's Web Site
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Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the 21st Century Mike Fortun and Herbert J. Bernstein Messy. Clumsy. Volatile. Exciting. These worlds are not of ten associated with the sciences, which for most people still connote exactitude, elegance, reliability, and a rather plodding certainty. But the real story is something quite different The sciences are less about the ability to know and to control than they are about the unleashing of new forces, new capacities for changing the world. The sciences as practiced exist not in some pristine world of "objectivity," but in what Mike Fortun and Herbert Bernstein call "the muddled middle." This book explores the way science makes sense of the world and how the world makes sense of science. It is also about politics and culture -how these forces shape the sciences and are shaped by them in turn. Thinking of Muddling Through as the basic text for a new kind of literacy project, a project to reimagine the sciences as complex operations of language, action, and thought - as attempts, trials, limited experiments. Contact: Mike Fortun |
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Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in the Era of Globalization 2007 David J. Hess
In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, technology, and industry. Synthesizing and extending work in social studies of science and technology, social movements, and globalization, Hess explores the interaction of grassroots environmental action and mainstream industry and offers a conceptual framework for understanding it. Contact: David J. Hess |
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Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America 2002 Linda Layne Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at pregnancy loss in America, reproductive technologies and the cultural responses surrounding miscarriage. Examining both support groups and the rituals they create to help couples through loss, her analysis offers valuable insight on how material culture contributes to conceptions of personhood. A fascinating examination, Motherhood Lost is also a provocative challenge to feminists and other activists to increase awareness and provide necessary support for this often hidden but critically important topic. Contact: Linda Layne |
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Science, Technology, and Society: An Encyclopedia 2006 Sal Restivo, Editor Emphasizing an interdisciplinary and international coverage of the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture, Science, Technology, and Society contains over 130 A to Z signed articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions and institutes worldwide. Each article is accompanied by a selected bibliography. Other features include extensive cross referencing throughout, a directory of contributors, and an extensive topical index. Contact: Sal Restivo |
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Bring Me the Brain of Nikola Tesla 2007 Sal Restivo When Tony Conti's former lover, Mary Lynn Kagan, comes back into his life after a long absence, he is soon immersed in the hunt for her husband's killers. Tony's friends, Roscoe and Linda, join Tony and Mary Lynn in their quest as they also search for their holy grail-the missing papers of Nikola Tesla, the world-renowned inventor, physicist, and engineer. The trail of the killers and the missing papers takes the friends from the United States to Europe, where they encounter a nationalist group identified only by the initials SCNF. The group kidnaps Roscoe and demands the Tesla papers as a ransom. There is a hidden feature of the papers unknown to Tony that could put a powerful new weapon into the hands of the SCNF. Also included is a lengthy excerpt from Tony's diaries, which fleshes out the portrait of this talented intellectual coming of age in the 1960s. Watch Tony develop strategies for sexual survival as he blossoms into the scholar who will eventually write The Thug Theory of History. Bring Me the Brain of Nikola Tesla explores the boundaries of sex, self, and consciousness as author Sal Restivo interweaves linear narrative with dreams, memories, and diary entries from different time periods to create a mesmerizing tale.
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