David Depew: 2 books
Memory Bytes
History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for the need to understand digital culture—and its social, political, and ethical...
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race
American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human...