From: TABRON-AT-BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 17:50:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Technology and Empire


Thanks to everyone for so many responses; I thought I'd post a summary of the
responses I got, with more clarification in some cases of works I was directed
to.

I hope this list is interesting to others besides me. The fiction seems to lean
towards science fiction, and while I'm interested in that I was also hoping for
works that wrestle with technology and its pressure (or liberatory function) on
culture. J.G. Ballard's _Crash_, for instance. Perhaps literatures in English
that are not American or British do not have as much concern with the problems
of technology?

Anyway, thank all of you very much, and I'd still be delighted to receive other
suggestions, especially concerning the literature of Australia or any of the
nations of Africa.

Judith Tabron
Brandeis University
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Australia	"Mad Max"	
		Illicit Passage Women's Redress Press, 1992	Alice Nunn

Canada	       -Empire and Communications	Harold Innis
		(What was suggested to me was "Technology and Empire", which I
		could not find as a book -- perhaps this is an essay?)

	       -"Angels Dancing: Cultural Technologies and the Production of 
		Space" (in Cultural Studies collection, Grossberg-Nelson-
		Treichler eds)	Jody Berland

		-"Technological Nationalism"  in the Canadian Journal of 
		Social and Political Thought, 1984.	Maurice Charland
		(I couldn't find this journal at all, anywhere.)

       		-Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/ McLuhan /Grant
		Arthur Kroker

		-Northern Stars	David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant, editors

		-Canadian Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature (Ottawa: Nat'l 
		Library of Canada)
		(CouldnŐt find, but found Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy,
		ed. Ketterer, David (May be a diff. book; this one came out 
		from Indiana Univ. Press, 1992).

India		-The return of Vaman. Ravi Dayal Publishers, 1989	
		Jayant Narlikar

		-The scream of the dragonflies and other stories. New Delhi :
		 Indus, 1996	Ravi Shankar

France		-"The Illusion of the End"	Jean Baudrillard



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