HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage Dr. Jamie Cross Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh.

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HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage Dr. Jamie Cross Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh

GLOBAL HISTORIES Bell Laboratories, United States 1954

HUMIDITY & THE TROPICS

‘What to do with our new baby?’ - Daryl Chapin

“We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.” - Harry S. Truman 1949 ‘DEVELOPMENT’

WEST AFRICA

GONDEL, NIGER 1968

1973 THE SAHEL

1973 CORSICA, FRANCE

1978 KONI & NABASSO, MALI

THE FIELD LABORATORY

DETERIORATIONORGANISATION

“Technical objects have political strength…They may change social relationships but they also stabilize, naturalise, depoliticise and translate these into other media… technical objects build our history for us.” - Madelaine Akrich (1992) HISTORY, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

THE 100 th OBJECT