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Technology and the Literary Imagination
- Instructors
- Prof. Leo Marx, Prof. Rosalind Williams
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 17 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.464 Technology and the Literary Imagination, Spring 2008, Prof. Leo Marx, Prof. Rosalind Williams — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Readings
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16 files
- Technology and Faith in Don DeLillo’s White Noise Download
- John Hersey’s Hiroshima: Reactions to a Technological Novelty Download
- Locating the Boundaries: Humans, Nature, and God in Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature Download
- Modern Superstitions Download
- The politics of naturalism Download
- Perfect Slaves Download
- A new variety of mind Download
- A new kind of science (of whales) Download
- Science as fiction Download
- Ishmael’s empty ship Download
- Fog-shaped men Download
- An unknown force Download
- Rembrandts and streetlamps Download
- Reconciling Continuity and Rupture: Rhetorical Strategy in Seeing Escalators as Tipping Points in the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Henry Adams, and Bill McKibben Download
- Technology, Nature, and the Loss of Meaning Download
- Design and the Automated Utopia Download
Course outline
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Lecture 3: The enlightenment: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia
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Lecture 4: Industrialization: a Trans-Atlantic debate
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Lecture 5: Technological dynamism
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Lecture 6: An epic of technological fatality (I): Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick , chapters 1-40
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Lecture 7: An epic of technological fatality (II): Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick , chapters 41-96
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Lecture 8: An epic of technological fatality (III): Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick , overview
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Lecture 9: The lost America: Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Lecture 10: Ecological Crisis I: John Hersey’s Hiroshima
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Lecture 11: Ecological Crisis II: Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Leo Marx, Prof. Rosalind Williams, STS.464 Technology and the Literary Imagination, Spring 2008.
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