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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... biomedicine we seem to be moving away from ' everyday life ' – from a domain of bodily ' normality ' to ' abnormality ' . Yet , of course , at stake here is what is meant by the body and everyday life . For many , the body - in ...
... biomedicine . For instance , we must be wary of reifying biomedicine – or , more mundanely , health provision : as we shall see , there are many variants of doing medicine ' biomedically ' and these do not always sit comfortably ...
... biomedicine , we should also be wary of ascribing biomedicine an intellectual or cultural autonomy – that is , we need to be careful that we do not render it a ' citadel ' , as Martin ( 1998 ) has phrased it . Rather , as Martin's own ...
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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 |