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HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY
in the solar assemblage
Dr. Jamie Cross
Social Anthropology
University of Edinburgh
1954
Bell Laboratories, United States
1954
HUMIDITY & THE TROPICS
‘What to do with our new baby?’
- Daryl Chapin
1949
“We must embark on a bold new program for
making the benefits of our scientific advances and
industrial progress available for the improvement
and growth of underdeveloped areas.”
- Harry S. Truman
‘DEVELOPMENT’
‘DEVELOPMENT’
WEST AFRICA
1968
GONDEL, NIGER
1973
THE SAHEL
1973
CORSICA, FRANCE
1978
KONI & NABASSO, MALI
THE FIELD LABORATORY
DETERIORATION
ORGANISATION
“Technical objects have political
strength…They may change social
relationships but they also stabilize, naturalise,
depoliticise and translate these into other
media…
technical objects build our history for us.”
- Madelaine Akrich (1992)
HISTORY, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
THE 100th OBJECT