Ian Binnie
master brummie
A lunchtime talk at the BMI on Monday 16 September 2024, 1pm -2pm
Faith in technology in interwar France: from criticism to crisis in the 1930s
Do we control our technologies or do they control us? Is the invention of progress the invention of disaster?
In this talk Dr Brian Sudlow (Aston University) will consider how French intellectuals in the interwar period quarrelled about the merits of technology and its effects on western civilisation. Drawing on recent archival research, he will focus especially on the cases of Simone Weil and Daniel-Rops, and show how some of their concerns about technology and technological societies have resurfaced in the twenty-first century. Brian is a Lecturer at Aston University where he teaches history of technology and global history.
Pay at the door (£5 to BMI) or book on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faith-in-technology-in-interwar-france-tickets-932321357277>; https:// select www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faith-in-technology-in-interwar-france-tickets-932321357277
Faith in technology in interwar France: from criticism to crisis in the 1930s
Do we control our technologies or do they control us? Is the invention of progress the invention of disaster?
In this talk Dr Brian Sudlow (Aston University) will consider how French intellectuals in the interwar period quarrelled about the merits of technology and its effects on western civilisation. Drawing on recent archival research, he will focus especially on the cases of Simone Weil and Daniel-Rops, and show how some of their concerns about technology and technological societies have resurfaced in the twenty-first century. Brian is a Lecturer at Aston University where he teaches history of technology and global history.
Pay at the door (£5 to BMI) or book on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faith-in-technology-in-interwar-france-tickets-932321357277>; https:// select www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/faith-in-technology-in-interwar-france-tickets-932321357277