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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... domestic and working life ( cars , computers , chairs ) and more or less cutting edge technoscientific innovations , most obviously in biomedicine1 ( health communication campaigns through to stem cell therapy , genetic diagnostics ...
... domestic space clearing an enormous injustice , not least because such labour and its spatial- izations are highly gendered . On the one hand , the many domestic devices that have supposedly made women's lives easier have ...
... Domestic equipment does not increase domestic work : a re- sponse to Bittman , Rice and Wacjman . British Journal of Sociology , 55 , 425–431 . Geuss , R. ( 1981 ) The Idea of a 166 TECHNOSCIENCE AND EVERYDAY LIFE.
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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 |