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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of
Control
1. Contexts of Control 13
Miriam R. Levin
2. Nature Out of Control: Cultural Origins and Environmental
Implications of Large Technological Systems 41
Rosalind Williams
3. Measuring Cloth by the Elbow and a Thumb: Resistance to
Numbers in France of the 1780s 69
Daryl M. Hafter
4. The Meaning of Cleaning: Producing Harmony and Hygiene
in the Home 81
Boel Berner
5. How the Motor Car Conquered the Road 113
Catherine Bertho Lavenir '
6. Culture, Technology and Constructed Memory in Disney's
New Town: Techno-nostalgia in Historical Perspective 135
Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella
Part 2: Managing Machines
7. How to Make Chance Manageable: Statistical Thinking and
Cognitive Devices in Manufacturing Control 153
Denis Bayart
8. Ideology Counts: Controlling the Bodies of Concentration
Camp Prisoners 177
Michael Thad Allen
9. Beasts and Systems: Taming and Stability in the History of
Control 205
David A. Mindell
10. Liquifying Information: Controlling the Flood in the Cold War
and Beyond 225
Mark D. Bowles
11. Striving for 'Optimal Control': Soviet Cybernetics as a
'Science of Government' 247
Slava Gerovitch.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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