Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Energy Past to Heritage Future

Ross, Linda M.

doi:10.1080/2159032x.2023.2266644

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“…The cumulative phasing out of nuclear power plants, whether because of age or political disapproval, together with the nuclear landscapes created and left behind by the atomic age have stimulated a boom in nuclear history and a new field-nuclear cultural heritage studies (Ross 2023;Bensaude-Vincent et al 2022;Kasperski and Storm 2020;Brown 2013;Hecht 2012). The challenges of "nuclearity", as well as other long-term toxic legacies, have made researchers more aware of the temporal dimensions at stake and helped them differentiate various timescales.…”

Section: Technology's Unintended "Afterlife": Legacies Remediation An...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Innovation and Use, or Why We Must Follow Technologies through Time

Weber

2024

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Synthesizing various studies that follow technology beyond innovation and use, this article aims to continue widening the scope of history of technology toward this perspective. It argues that we must follow technology through time and—in addition to its use—its maintenance and repair, while also addressing its so-called afterlife, encompassing topics such as reuse, reconfiguration and/or restoration, decline or deliberate ruination, abandonment, and removal and/or remains. Recent studies of these issues underscore that the temporality of technology does not end with the end of its use, suggesting instead multilayered temporalities. History of technology is thus challenged to rethink some of its established and largely unquestioned approaches, such as the “innovation timeline”, the model of “technology diffusion and substitution”, and “lifecycle” metaphors borrowed from twentieth-century theories of economic growth and innovation.

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Section: Technology's Unintended "Afterlife": Legacies Remediation An...mentioning

confidence: 99%