ANT349H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commodity Fetishism, Techne, Hunnan District
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Definite social relations between men which assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things . The products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own, which enter into relations both with each other and with the human race . Karl marx: unlike actor-network theory, which is more like another lens through which to analyze similar phenomenon, actors can be passive, don"t have to actually act to have an effect on people. Or that all youth are good with computers. Wasn"t always the case: edwards, paul: the army and the microworld: computers and the politics of. 1990 significant because comes at the end of the cold war, within which technology and computing were significant and important issues. 35% of computer programmers and 30% of systems analysts were women in the 1980s.
