[Themaintainers] readings for infrastructure course

[Irani, Lilly]

Fernando Dominguez Rubio, "Preserving the unpreservable: docile and unruly objects at MoMA”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11186-014-9233-4
puts questions of care and maintenance at the center of sociological/philosophical concerns about cultural categories, social order, and ontology

My own piece looks at how Amazon Mechanical Turk formats some workers as distanced “infrastructure” so other workers can program and “innovate” more intensively (so labor as environment):
https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article-abstract/114/1/225/3763/Difference-and-Dependence-among-Digital-Workers?redirectedFrom=fulltext


On Nov 20, 2017, at 6:13 AM, Greene, Ann Norton <angreene at sas.upenn.edu> wrote:

Dear Maintainers,
I am teaching a new course next semester about infrastructures and environments, intended as a special topics seminar, so it will be both introductory but with upper level students, and focused on research skills via several short projects.
I could really use some recommendations on readings, especially essay length.  At the moment I am planning to do historical case studies (the course is called “Waters, Roads and Wires)
and readings so far include Chris Jones’ _Routes of Power_ and Julie Cohn’s _The Grid_.  I have some railroad, energy and mass transit people in Philadelphia to draw on as outside speakers.

Thanks in advance,
Ann

Ann N. Greene
Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies & Assistant Professor (Adj.)
Dept of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania

Office Hours Fall 2017
M 1-3 TW 10-11, TWR 2-4

Author, _Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America_ (Harvard, 2008)


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