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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... issues raised by pro- jected developments in technoscience as they apply to , and prospectively transform , the body . These representations of possible future bodies are subject to debate , debate in which , variously , there is a ...
... issues ( e.g. matters of biomedical or environmental risk ) , not least by attempting to dictate the terms of reference , the forms of argumentation and the standards of evidence ( see Barry 2001 ) for addressing such issues . In other ...
... issue of whether , let alone how , dissent is accommodated in these democratizing procedures , and thus whether the ... issues ' ( Osborne and Rose 1999 ; Michael and Brown 2004 ) .14 In other words , if the ' study of the public ...
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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 |