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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... genetic com- position ) are found to be more complex at closer quarters ( see Rose 2005 ) . For instance , Kerr and Cunningham - Burley ( 2000 ) show older discourses around ' blood ' cohabit with accounts in terms of genetics . However ...
... Genetics : ' We are at the dawn of a genetic age ' ( p . 1 ) . Inevitably , there are other candidates for describing society apprehended through the new genetics : we have already encountered , in Chapter 3 , the idea of posthumanity ...
... genetic technologies such as Polymerase Chain Reaction , or PCR ( see Rabinow 1996 ) , has enabled the rapid development of genetic diagnostics . However , diagnostics have generally outstripped the de- velopment of therapeutics : to be ...
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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 |