Subject: Re: Technology and Empire
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:09:17 EDT


Perhaps "The Science of Empire" by Zaheer Baber?

D.


>From: "Cristina J. Thaut" <ct84153-AT-ltec.net>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Technology and Empire
>Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 18:29:52 -0500
>
>Dear List,
>
>Apologies in advance for using the list for such a mundane request.  Can
>anyone suggest texts which explore a relationship between
>science/technology and empire?  This is a very broad request, I realize.  I
>am writing a short conference paper on Shakespearean motifs in Star Trek.
>I'm looking at how the use of magic in _The Tempest_ (Ariel, a colonial
>subject) shifts to become a use of science and technology in _The Forbidden
>Planet_ and early ST episodes.  I hope this paper topic blurb will provide
>some focus to the above request.  In short, I'm not sure what I'm looking
>for, although I think there may be an imperial motif lurking in both the
>use of magic and science as subjugated forces.
>
>Thanks in advance, Cristi Thaut
>
>
>
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