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Not Artifacts, but Acts

机译：不是伪像，而是行为

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In Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture, Thomas Hughes draws on the breadth and depth of his long career as one of the 20th century's most eminent historians of technology. This concise book not only charts a course through a rich sea of intellectual engagements with the subject, it also implicitly documents Hughes's own intellectual journey. Human-Built World opens by examining the idea of "technology" as expressed through the history of the word. Its currently popular meaning became fixed only after the Second World War, but even today, Hughes laments, too many people understand the concept too reductively, as the ingenious output of a serial patrimony of heroic inventors, a chronological progression of artifacts, each more outstanding than the one before. For Hughes, technology consists not primarily of artifacts but of acts: It is constituted through the creative actions of people engaging with their natural environment to build a new one; it is an ongoing process that is anything but straightforward. What follows is not really a historical survey of this complex process but rather a thematic and selective pass through the new world that resulted, a story told as much by the writers who have influenced Hughes as by Hughes himself.
机译：在《人类构建的世界：如何思考技术和文化》中，托马斯·休斯（Thomas Hughes）凭借其漫长的职业生涯的广度和深度，成为20世纪最杰出的技术史学家之一。这本书简明扼要，不仅勾勒出了与该学科知识渊博的丰富课程，而且隐含地记载了休斯自己的知识之旅。 “人类构建的世界”通过检查通过单词的历史表达的“技术”的概念来打开。其当前流行的含义直到第二次世界大战后才被确定，但是直到今天，休斯仍感叹，因为英雄英雄发明家的系列遗产的巧妙输出，人工制品的按时间顺序发展，每个人都更加杰出，休斯仍然感叹这一概念。比以前的一个对休斯来说，技术主要不是由文物而是由行为构成的：它是通过人们与自然环境互动以创造新技术的创造性行动而构成的；这是一个持续不断的过程，但并非一帆风顺。接下来的内容并不是对这个复杂过程的历史考察，而是对新世界产生的主题性和选择性的传递，这个故事讲述了影响休斯的作家和休斯本人一样多的故事。

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    《American Scientist》 |2004年第6期|p.576-577|共2页
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    Emily Thompson;

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    Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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