Standards: Recipes for Reality (Infrastructures)

by Lawrence Busch (Author), Lawrence Busch (Author), Geoffrey C. Bowker (Author), Paul N. Edwards (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $54.67

  This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions. The author outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. The author also empowering some but disempowering others.