技术创新史的文化研究路径——近年来技术史研究的新动向

A New Trend to Study on History of Technological Innovation:Cultural Studies

对国际技术史权威期刊《技术与文化》最近十多年来有关技术创新史的论文进行了综合考察,参照文学理论和史学研究的新进展,从整体上对这些研究的方法论进路作了"文化研究"的理论概括与定位,从而尝试性地思考了国外技术史家在技术创新史研究中是如何引入建构论作为技术史的解释范式,并通过改进该范式,从而推动技术史走向对技术创新的"文化研究"路径的。思考了该解释范式有待进一步解决的问题,对技术创新史的进一步研究进行了展望。

Referring to the new progress of literature theory and the study on history, a survey is made for the articles on technological innovation published on the Technology and Culture in recent over 10 years, which is an international well-known periodical for the history of technology. The aim is to generalize theoretically the methodological bases on which these articles were stated as a whole to find what their cultural studies are oriented toward, thus revealing tentatively how the foreign technological historians introduced the constructionism into the explanatory norm for technological history. And an attempt is made to improve such a norm so as to open a new way to turn the study on technological history to that on technological innovation. Some problems to be solved in the explanatory norm are considered, and an outlook is given to study further the history of technological innovation.