Summer School 2013 "Situating Media“

Selected Texts for Discussion

The texts selected for discussion will be supplied upon registration.

Akrich, Madeleine (1992): The De-scription of Technical Objects. In: Bijker, Wiebe E., and John Law (ed.), Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 204-224.

Attali, Jacques (1985): Representing. Ch. 3 in: Idem, Noise The Political Economy of Music. Theory and History of Literature 16. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 46-85.

Hull, Matthew S. (2012): Documents and Bureaucracy. In: Annual Review of Anthropology, 41: 251-267.

Pinch, Trevor J. (2008): Technology and Institutions. Living in a Material World. In: Theory and Society, 37 (5): 461-483.

Latour, Bruno, and Steve Woolgar (1979): An Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory. Ch. 2 in: Idem, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 43-88.

Rottenburg, Richard (2009 [2002]): Trading Zones. Ch. 5 in: Idem, Far-Fetched Facts. A Parable of Development Aid. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 121-169.

Star, Susan L. (1999): The Ethnography of Infrastructure. In: American Behavioral Scientist, 43 (7): 377-391.

Sterne, Jonathan (2003): Techniques of Listening. Ch. 2 in: Idem, The Audible Past. Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham/London: Duke University Press, 87-136.

Stolow, Jeremy (2007): Holy Pleather: Materializing Authority in Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Publishing. In: Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 3 (3): 314-335.

Stolow, Jeremy (2013): Introduction. Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between. In: Idem (ed.), Deus in Machina. Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between. New York: Fordham University Press, 1-22.