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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... ( characterized as ' lay ' ) and the realms of technoscience ( characterized as ' expert ' ) . Indeed , technoscience and everyday life borrow from each other to the point that , as various authors have argued ( e.g. Martin 1998 ; Irwin ...
... characterized by ordering and disordering , the performativity of ' efforts'3 at ordering and disordering affect other like ' efforts ' . Crucially , such everyday efforts include critique of others . Put simply , critique can be done ...
... characterized by a seeming stasis or lack of change in which there is a continuity of order – that is , a homeo- static process in which a particular pattern is ongoingly reproduced . Finally , there are those presents in which the ...
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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 |