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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... entities ' come together ' with other entities in the making of space . Specifically , we explore some of the sorts of prepositions that might allow us to grasp – or at least , address – the relations into which entities enter , and out ...
The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane Mike Michael. local spaces change too as entities such as anaemia or the mobile phone enter them . In other words , it might behove us to think in terms of a ' mutual warping ' between an ' entity ...
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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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