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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... global and local , this is not best studied by tracing the ' global ' elements that converge to make the local – what he calls ' looking up ' , or the study of romantic complexity . Rather , ( baroque ) complexity is seen to be ...
... global nature ' appear ten- tative , the apparent ' authenticities ' offered by ' local nature ' need to be treated with like circumspection . After all , as we have noted , the everyday - including the everyday of local nature is ...
... global positioning system , 111 poor reception in Wales ( website ) , 109 unnecessary distress call in Lake District ( website ) , 109 sensing space , 115-120 electromagnetic fields , 118 example of sunglasses , 115-116 global nature ...
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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 |