[Sci-tech-public] December 4th Anthro Talk

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>"Engineers as Radical Intellectuals:
>Contested 'Responsibilities' in the 1960s"
>Matthew Wisnioski, Washington University
>
>Sponsored by the MIT Anthropology Program
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>Monday, December 4 @ 12:30
>MIT Building 16, Room 220
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>Engineers in the 1960s found themselves losing control.  Scientists 
>seemed to take their credit, work in the "military-industrial 
>complex" eroded their ethos of autonomy, and, most disconcerting, 
>technology increasingly was assailed as alienating, destructive, and 
>inhumane.  In this talk, we'll explore how engineers reconciled 
>themselves with this intellectual crisis of technology by calling 
>upon contradictory rhetorics of responsibility. Responsibility 
>(perhaps the political watchword of the Cold War era) was central 
>not only to the cultural politics of the New Left, cold warriors, 
>and conservatives, but shaped also how engineers envisioned 
>technology and social change.  In calling for new responsibilities 
>engineers appropriated the ideas of establishment intellectuals, 
>Quaker moralists, and critical social theorists to redefine their 
>authority over the meaning of technology.
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>
>Lunch will be provided.
>Please RSVP to: <mailto:asteward at mit.edu>asteward at mit.edu by Tuesday 
>November 28th.
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>Amberly Steward
>Administrative Assistant
>Anthropology Program
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Bldg. 16-267
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>p) 617.253.3065
>f) 617.253.5363
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