ISoS News

A few day ago, a new special issue in "Animal History" (University of California Press) on historical human-technology-animal relations was published!

Most contributions to the special issue are now available online.

The issue grew out of the international workshop "From Passive Livestock to Untamed Beings: Reanimating Animals in the History of Technology," held at the Technical University of Berlin in 2024.

In his introductory essay, “Toward an Animated History of Technology,” ISoS member Christian Zumbrägel argues for a more systematic integration of animals into the history of technology and proposes a conceptual framework for understanding how animals have enabled, shaped, challenged, and sometimes disrupted technological actions in the past. Read the introduction here: https://doi.org/10.1525/ah.2026.134

Explore the special issue and read the exciting papers by Vanessa Bateman, Corinna Röver, Christoph Borbach, and Daniel Bowman!