Technoscience and Everyday Life: The Complex Simplicities of the MundaneOpen University Press, 2006 - 186 páginas Theoretically innovative and empirically wide-ranging, this book examines the complex relations between technoscience and everyday life. It draws on numerous examples, including both mundane technologies such as Velcro, Post-it notes, mobile phones and surveillance cameras, and the esoterica of xenotransplantation, new genetics, nanotechnology and posthuman society. Technoscience and Everyday Life traces the multiple ways in which technoscience features in and affects the dynamics of everyday life, and explores how the everyday influences the course of technoscience. In the process, it takes account of a range of core social scientific themes: body, identity, citizenship, society, space, and time. It combines critique and microsocial analysis to develop several novel conceptual tools, and addresses key contemporary theoretical debates on posthumanism, social-material divides, process philosophy and complexity, temporality and spatiality. The book is a major contribution to the sociology of everyday life, science and technology studies, and social theory. |
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... find velcro has been used to describe social bonds and networks where contacts accumulate by virtue of a social stickiness likened to that of velcro ( http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/5326667344598756/ ) . In this case ...
... find particular orderings , whereas looking down into the surrounding orderings , we find disorder , clutter and , indeed , chaos . 12 In the figure of clutter and in the promise of tidiness , we see two sets of relations – disordered ...
... find examples of the way this process of stand- ardization enters into more and more aspects of everyday life . For instance , in relation to the standardization of time , clocks can now automatically synchronize themselves with ...
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Versions of everyday life and technoscience | 16 |
making the corporeal in everyday life | 41 |
the micropolitics of everyday life | 63 |
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Technoscience And Everyday Life: The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane Michael, Mike Vista previa limitada - 2006 |