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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... difficult one to disentangle , but we can minimally note that whatever complex versions of lay reader are entailed in such texts – whether consumer , citizen , parent , cultured person , and so on and so forth - none would fail to be ...
... difficult to pin down . As we shall see further , technoscientific artefacts - though their uses might , in a number of ways , be ' scripted ' ( Akrich 1992 ) – can proliferate in their uses and meanings . As such they can be both ...
... difficult to evaluate but that nevertheless serve , not least via the media , to interest venture capital , or capture the public imagination , or curry regulatory favour . These two ' forces ' ( which are not accorded any causal ...
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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 |