Papers by Thomas Kaiserfeld
Book Review:The Flight of the Eagle. (Original Title: Ingenjor Andrees Luftfard)
Isis, 1993
Stadgar ger stadga : Formalia i ständig förändring
Jan Eivind Myhre: Universitetet i Oslo 1811–2011. Bok 8: 1811–2011 Kunnskapsbærerne: Akademikere mellom universitet og samfunn
Historisk tidsskrift, 2013
Nobel Literature Row: Ususally it takes a world war to disrupt the prize
The conversation, 2018
Historiska perspektiv på internationaliseringen av humanvetenskaperna
Istvan Hargittai, The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists (Oxford, 2002)
Ambix, 2004
Istvan Hargittai, The Road to Stockholm: Nobel Prizes, Science, and Scientists (Oxford, 2002)
Swedish History of Technology, a review
Knowledge
Beyond Innovation, 2015
Näringen, rationaliseringen och akademiseringen : Avslutande reflektioner
Resistance to Change
An important perspective on institutions and technology is how they resist change, isolated or in... more An important perspective on institutions and technology is how they resist change, isolated or in tandem. Categories of institutional change are reviewed together with concepts such as path dependency, technological momentum and increasingly costly reversibility, all capture processes in which material and institutional practices and norms are stable. Resistance to change seems to rely on two fundamental characteristics. In some cases, it can be derived from the costs involved when changing practices or concretely substituting old technologies for new. In others, individual behavior may conserve existing practices, for instance, through conscious reluctance to change or through the force of routine. Most often, however, a combination of the two is the most important prerequisite for resistance to change.
Från Platons grotta till PPP : Projektionernas teknikhistoria och akademikernas vardagspraktik
Academics use projections in everyday practices, both in teaching and research presentations. The... more Academics use projections in everyday practices, both in teaching and research presentations. The custom is so common, it passes almost without reflection beyond what may be regarded as good and bad practices. In this article, the use of projections in research and academic teaching is exposed from Plato's allegory of the cave via camera obscura and laterna magica to skiopticon and overhead projectors. The resulting historical narrative of the academic use of projected images revolves around their interpretation as pedagogical tool, scientific instrument and entertaining gadgetry.
Akademien som akademiserades 1820–1904
För den värmländska lanthushållningens väl : landshövdingar, akademiker och hushållningssällskap i arbete för agrar modernisering 1790-1820 skildrat i samtida och nyskrivna texter
Vetandets världar : Texter om vetenskap, kultur och historia
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