Lee Vinsel
@leev.bsky.social
I do technology studies, make the Peoples & Things podcast, co-founded The Maintainers, and profess Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Basically since they emerged in a professional sense in Germany in the late-18th and early-19th centuries!
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Basically since they emerged in a professional sense in Germany in the late-18th and early-19th centuries!
Hey, buddy! Would be fun to revisit.
Recently I have also become interested in the flipside of this thought: Which is how the humanities have always defined themselves in opposition to the sciences, business, technology, and so on. I have found this book helpful. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Recently I have also become interested in the flipside of this thought: Which is how the humanities have always defined themselves in opposition to the sciences, business, technology, and so on. I have found this book helpful. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Permanent Crisis
Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and cohere...
press.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Hey, buddy! Would be fun to revisit.
Recently I have also become interested in the flipside of this thought: Which is how the humanities have always defined themselves in opposition to the sciences, business, technology, and so on. I have found this book helpful. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Recently I have also become interested in the flipside of this thought: Which is how the humanities have always defined themselves in opposition to the sciences, business, technology, and so on. I have found this book helpful. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
No haven't. Thanks for the idea!
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
No haven't. Thanks for the idea!
My theory about how my dogs think about barking at delivery drivers - Works every time, the enemy always drives away.
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My theory about how my dogs think about barking at delivery drivers - Works every time, the enemy always drives away.
It was published as part of a special issue on Interventionist Knowledges edited by my friends Eric Hounshell and Verena Halsmeyer. The special issue examines cases where policymakers and others tried to "apply" social scientific knowledge to policy problems.
October 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It was published as part of a special issue on Interventionist Knowledges edited by my friends Eric Hounshell and Verena Halsmeyer. The special issue examines cases where policymakers and others tried to "apply" social scientific knowledge to policy problems.
Yeah. I agree with that. The local effects are real enough. They are also true of broad ranges of industrial production. But I think these kinds of analyses are born of the fact that a lot of critics have themselves been casting the issue in individual terms.
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Yeah. I agree with that. The local effects are real enough. They are also true of broad ranges of industrial production. But I think these kinds of analyses are born of the fact that a lot of critics have themselves been casting the issue in individual terms.