Primordial Haptics, 1925-1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory
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Stadler, Max
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2022-06-07T08:34:34Z
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2021-07-28T03:02:48Z
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2021-08-23T13:25:48Z
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2022-06-07T08:34:34Z
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2022-03-01
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10.1177/1357034X211008239
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/497928
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‘Psychotechnics’, Weimar Germany’s science du jour, typically is framed as a symptom of ‘technological media’ – obscuring the persistent significance of ‘dexterity’, ‘skill’ and ‘manual labour’ at the time. More broadly, there is a tendency to construe ‘the haptic’ as predominantly a casualty of modernity: skilled hands replaced by conveyor belts; skilled hands defended by the rearguard actions of arts-and-crafts movements; skilled hands destroyed by industrialized warfare. Drawing on contemporary investigations into the ‘organ of touch’, this essay aims to complicate this picture by reconstructing the proto-ergonomic project of Friedrich Herig, a German engineer, amateur prehistorian and expert on craft labour who rose to distinction in the 1920s as a designer of ‘ideal’ hand tools. Herig’s eclectic sources of inspiration reveal that matters of ‘touch’, far from obsolete, were intimately bound up with matters of tools – their design, uses and putative origins – and thus, with matters of (manual) labour.
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en
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SAGE
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dexterity
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haptics
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manual labour
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psychotechnics
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tools
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Weimar Republic
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Primordial Haptics, 1925-1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory
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Journal Article
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2021-07-09
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Body and Society
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28
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1-2
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60
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90
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Thousand Oaks, CA
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published
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2021-07-28T03:03:03Z
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yes
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