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academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] i fear that most of the civilized world has forgotten too. i found them dirt cheap at thrift shops. i doubt they're still in print, but thankfully they are dirt cheap from used book sellers

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (7 children)

how could i forget these two absolutely hilarious and informative illustrated texts on medieval and 18th century life.

i’ve had them sitting on the shelves for years, and realized they make a compelling visual reference

#bookstodon #illustration #books

An Entertainment page showing festivities inside of a castle.
A page from Man-of-War showing men taking a dump in the roundhouse, and another man tossing their feces into the sea for fish to munch on.

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] fantastic - thank you for the reference!

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

adding two incredible finds to this medieval technology reading/research bibliography: Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. The bookseller immediately recognized it and exclaimed “I appreciate a writer with the common touch!”

The second book - Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon by HPR Finberg was an accidental find. While it does not speak to technological change in the late middle ages, it speaks to the social and cultural life of an abbey and its surrounding village.

#books #bookstodon

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

@[email protected] cool! i hadn’t heard of it until today.

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (13 children)

adding to the aforementioned bibliography of books concerning the intersection of the 15th-19th centuries and technological change. found them at a local used bookstore.

web searches for broad topics like this are often fruitless. a good library or academic bookstore already has this presorted by topic.

#bookstodon #books

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

answering my own question yesterday re: heideggerian technological change and the first industrial revolution:

there does not seem to be any specific agreed upon text that covers the above historical question - however, i've cobbled together a patchwork of related readings:

Miller, Adam. (Dissertation). Enframing and Enlightenment:
A Phenomenological History of Eighteenth-Century British Science, Technology, and Literature. https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/13807/miller_adam.pdf?sequence=1

Finberg, H.P.R. Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon.

Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval Village.

Gies, Frances and Joseph. Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages.

Gimpel, J. Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

Landes, David S. The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.

Mantoux, Paul. The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century.

McNeil, Ian. An Encyclopaedia of the history of technolology.

Toynbee, Arnold. Lectures on the industrial revolution of the 18th century in england. https://archive.org/details/LecturesOnTheIndustrialRevolutionOfThe18thCenturyInEngland

#academicMastodon #history

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] yeah, i know what you mean - and i think that strays beyond my immediate historical needs. i'm basically looking for someone to fill in a lot of the historical gaps that heidegger leaves wide open with his historical examples (grist mills, hydroelectric dams, etc). foucault is his own wilderness anyway 😅

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academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like (dialup.cafe)
 

academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like heidegger understands the term technology?

i’m imagining a book that interprets the social and cultural transformations between the late medieval and victorian periods, from older conceptions of morality and mechanism to newer ideas about individualism and automation? eg. documenting not only demographic changes, but also the ways of thinking about people that were preconditions for modern technological thought.

i realize this is a rather nebulous request covering a huge time span, but my background is in the philosophy of science and not british history literature.

#academicmastodon #history

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if you grew up in canada in the 90s and 2000s, you probably visited a Playdium arcade at one point or another. (fedia.io)
 

if you grew up in canada in the 90s and 2000s, you probably visited a Playdium arcade at one point or another.

if you didn't, playdium was a canadian national mega-arcade that had over a dozen locations at its peak. it grew in the late 90s and early 2000s when arcades had already withered away in most malls. they imported a ton of interesting massive arcade units, like Dance Dance Revolution, monster truck simulators and ride-racing sims

the playdium archive is an online mini-museum of playdium history. the edmonton-based archivist has done an incredible job of digitizing old footage.

my personal favourite are these reloadable Playcards that you'd use instead of cash in the arcade cabs. i wish i had hung on to mine.

#canada #history #arcade #yeg