Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Postblogging Technology, February 1947, I: Dreaming Beneath th Bench Grass · Poste Snow

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R_C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: You wanted to know at first word about Reggie's summer assignment. He ...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Following Up Follow Ups About Following Up: Exports, Fashion and the Warfare State

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The mysterious Pseudoerasmus asks: "Why are they wrong? Because their paradigm is the postwar neo-liberal (or whatever...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Missing the Point: On The Economic Advantages of Eighteenth Century England

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You will notice a "Blog Comment Follow-Up" tag this week. And how! Anyway, this is  Brad Delong  quoting "the mysterious P...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

The Fall of Rome, IX: Transhumance and Local Elites

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Transhumant pastoral agriculture is the movement of herds of livestock from one pasture, for fairly obvious reasons.  That being said, ...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Postblogging Technology, January 1947, II: Sparrows Fall.

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Mrs. B. T., 79 Av de Harmonia, Macao, Dear Jenny: I know that as a proper English girl you don't really let your hair down...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Postblogging Technology, January 1947, I: If This Goes On

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Mrs. B. T., 79 Av de Harmonia, Macao, Dear Jenny: Since you are about to receive the Earl, Uncle George, and my Father for th...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Recapping the Fall of Rome: Game of Thrones

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Lots of caption here, because credit where credit is due. This is Abdelratif Reda's fresh goat cheese, served with apricot jam on a ba...
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