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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... Latour is generally credited with introducing a more radical use of the term ' technoscience ' . For Latour , to study science , and in particular the laboratory with its capacity to generate knowledge and change the world , is to ...
... Latour ( 1993 , 1999 ) , been rather blind . For Latour , the modern West has , until relatively recently , strictly demarcated the human from the nonhuman , and the social from the material . While we inhabit the world more or less ...
... Latour , B. ( 1987a ) Science in Action : How to Follow Engineers in Society . Milton Keynes : Open University Press . Latour , B. ( 1987b ) Enlightenment without critique : a word on Michel Serres ' philosophy . In A. Phillips ( ed ...
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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 |