Scientific and technical knowledge and the making of political order

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Notes

1. In order of mention, Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1; Hessen, ‘The Social and Economic Roots;’ Zilsel, ‘The Sociological Roots;’ Mumford, Technics and Civilization; Gilfillan, The Sociology of Invention; Fleck, Genesis and Development; Ravetz, Scientific Knowledge; Foucault, The Order of Things; Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-pump, 21; Pocock, ‘Time, History and Eschatology;’ Ezrahi, The Descent of Icarus; Latour, We have Never been Modern; and Jasanoff, States of Knowledge.

2. Just go type Mission Control 1970s into Google Image. I will wait.

3. Edgerton, Warfare State; on Galambos I refer here to his work on the Organizational Synthesis, both in 1970 and 2005.

4. Edwards, The Closed World; Agar, The Government Machine, 493.