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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... Michel Serres . As Serres ( 1995b ) has long argued , what he calls quasi - objects are crucial to the enactment of social relations . To quote : Our relationships , social bonds , would be airy as Technoscience and the making of ...
... Michel Serres ' ( Serres and Latour 1995 ; Serres 2003 ) call for a philosophy of prepositions . Key to Serres ' interests is how disparate relations ' go together ' - science and art , subject and object , the material and the semiotic ...
... Michel Serres , the objects that make ' our history slow ' ( 1995b , p . 87 ) . This they partly do through their operations upon bodies as they go about their everyday business of opening tins and dipping teabags , switching lights on ...
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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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