Quinn DuPont studies the critical history of software technologies, focusing on metaphysical, historical, and political issues. Recently, he studied the history of email, and modes of production for software development. Currently, he studies historical and philosophical issues of encryption, and software preservation. Quinn is currently a MITACS Enhanced Accelerate PhD Fellow and Faculty of Information PhD student at the University of Toronto.

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  • Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
    Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
    by Jane Bennett
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    The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
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    Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
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Entries in fordism (4)

Thursday
Sep082011

Review of The Rational Factory

Biggs, L. (1996). The Rational Factory: architecture, technology, and work in America’s age of mass production. Studies in Industry and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Reviewed September 8, 2011.

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Saturday
Jul302011

Review of Histories of Computing

Mahoney, M. S. (2011). Histories of Computing. (T. Haigh, Ed.). Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. Reviewed July 29, 2011.

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Friday
Jul222011

Review of From Taylorism to Fordism: a rational madness

Doray, B. (1988). From Taylorism to Fordism: a rational madness. London: Free Association Books. Reviewed Friday, July 22, 2011.

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Monday
Jul182011

Review of Forcing the Factory of the Future: cybernation and societal institutions

Jones, B. (1997). Forcing the factory of the future: cybernation and societal institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviewed June 14, 2011

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