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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
color=maroon face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:maroon'>“The Subway Series”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=maroon face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:maroon'>A Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT
Program in Science, Technology, and Society<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Love and Engines: The Saint-Simonians’
Conversation Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color=navy face=Verdana><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:navy;font-weight:bold'>John Tresch, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold'>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>The movement of Saint-Simonianism
flourished in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>
around 1830; its adherents contributed helped direct the growth of French
railroads, industry, banking, and socialism. Many of them had studied at the
Ecole Polytechnique; it has been argued that this training prepared them to
embrace the technocratic vision of a society organized around production. We
might go farther in looking for the impact of Polytechnical training on
Saint-Simonianism. This paper suggests that research into the capacities of
steam engines in the 1820s was an important source for their energetic view of
nature and "pantheist" metaphysics. Further, the concept of "conversion"
tied together their fascination with industrial machinery, their predictions
about social evolution, and their efforts-- using a wide range of symbolic,
poetic, and musical "technologies"-- to change their audiences' minds
and hearts. This case of the "French technological sublime" shows how
engineering science combined with the ideas and attitudes of romanticism to
give fuel to early industrialization.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:
bold'>Tuesday, October 20, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;font-weight:
bold'>Located at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Science</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
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