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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... enabled or enhanced in some manner or other . Inevitably this is a highly complex process as the domestication ( e.g. Lie and Sorensen 1996 ) literature has amply demonstrated . From the inoculation of would - be everyday technologies ...
... enabled in assemblages composed in part of particular tech- noscientific ( and social scientific ) factions , differentiated against and through the technoscientific institutions that pervade everyday life , formally voiced through ...
... enabling the respondent to talk about Burger King so assiduously . The activities of the pit bull and the cat are part ... enabled by the co - presence of the pitpercat . This suggests that in the making of ' society ' - in this case 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 |