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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... courses , which involves the use of racing - style bikes that are ridden , carried , bunny - hopped and skidded in the course of the race – have noticed that the velcro straps on their shoes loosen up in wet and muddy conditions ...
... course , frottage is just one prepositional metaphor , and no great claims are made for it . Indeed , were we to apply the same line of thought to the disastrous interview episode described in the previous chapter , a different ...
... course , there is a considerable history of political discourse , not least on utopias and dystopias , which informs the western sense of a good or bad future . However , there are also other formal aspects of the way that the future is ...
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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 |