Cultures of control Machine generated contents note: Part 1: Conventional Notions of Culture and Original Modes of Control 1. Contexts of Control 13 Miriam R. Levin 2. Nature Out of Control: Cultural Origins and Environmental Implications of Large Technological Systems 41 Rosalind Williams 3. Measuring Cloth by the Elbow and a Thumb: Resistance to Numbers in France of the 1780s 69 Daryl M. Hafter 4. The Meaning of Cleaning: Producing Harmony and Hygiene in the Home 81 Boel Berner 5. How the Motor Car Conquered the Road 113 Catherine Bertho Lavenir  6. Culture Technology and Constructed Memory in Disneys New Town: Techno nostalgia in Historical Perspective 135 Robert H. Kargon and Arthur P. Molella Part 2: Managing Machines 7. How to Make Chance Manageable: Statistical Thinking and Cognitive Devices in Manufacturing Control 153 Denis Bayart 8. Ideology Counts: Controlling the Bodies of Concentration Camp Prisoners 177 Michael Thad Allen 9. Beasts and Systems: Taming and Stability in the History of Control 205 David A. Mindell 10. Liquifying Information: Controlling the Flood in the Cold War and Beyond 225 Mark D. Bowles 11. Striving for Optimal Control: Soviet Cybernetics as a Science of Government 247 Slava Gerovitch