Uncanny Nature — Why the Concept of the Anthropocene is Relevant for Historians of Technology
- Author(s)
- Year
- 2017
- Journal
ICON, Vol. 23
- Nr. of Pages
- 25-35
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Summary
Historians of science and technology have already singled out how scholarships in these fields is particularly suitable to deal with the narratives in the longue-durée concerning chances at the crossroad of science, technology, and the environment. We further argue that the challenges of the Anthropocene require us a deeper engagement with materiality, summoning historians and philosophers of science and technology to a wide debate in which the underpinnings and effects of crucial conceptual categories (nature, society and technology in the first place), and the subsequent disciplinary boundaries, are put into question.