Rewiring the "Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies

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American Quarterly
Special Issue
September 2006

Rewiring the “Nation”: The Place of Technology in American Studies
Edited by Carolyn de la Peña and Siva Vaidhyanathan

Preface
Curtis Marez and Marita Sturken

Introduction
Siva Vaidhyanathan

Technologies of Transcendence

Technology and Its Discontents: On the Verge of the Posthuman
Joel Dinerstein

Technology and the Production of Difference
David E. Nye

The Turn Within: The Irony of Technology in a Globalized World
Susan J. Douglas

Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud: African Americans, American Artifactual Culture, and Black Vernacular Technological Creativity
Rayvon Fouché

The Cultural Work of Technological Systems

Imperial Mechanics: South America’s Hemispheric Integration in the Machine Age
Ricardo D. Salvatore

Precision Targets: GPS and the Militarization of U.S. Consumer Identity
Caren Kaplan

The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation
Robert MacDougall

Technology and Knowledge Systems

Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Andrew Ross

Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies: Hurricane Katrina and the Production of a Weather Media Event
Nicole R. Fleetwood

Boundaries and Border Wars: DES, Technology, and Environmental Justice
Julie Sze

Markets and Machines: Work in the Technological Sensoryscapes of Finance
Caitlin Zaloom

Technology, Mobility, and the Body

Educating the Eye: Body Mechanics and Streamlining in the United States, 1925–1950
Carma R. Gorman

Farewell to the El: Nostalgic Urban Visuality on the Third Avenue Elevated Train
Sunny Stalter

Flexible Technologies of Subjectivity and Mobility across the Americas
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel

Viewing the Field

“Slow and Low Progress,” or Why American Studies Should Do Technology
Carolyn de la Peña

Digital Junction
Debra DeRuyver and Jennifer Evans

Cover design by William Longhauser.
Front Cover: Wyatt Gallery, Cadillac, New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2005. Digital C-Print Edition #1/5 30x38”. Courtesy of the artist, Watermark Fine Arts, and www.wyattgallery.com. Back cover: Group of tourists in front of Panama Canal, Gatun, Panama, ca. 1910. © Underwood & Underwood/Corbis. Background image:  AT&T advertisement, ca. 1920. Courtesy AT&T Archives and History Center, San Antonio.