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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... least as repetition and innovation ( and circular and linear time , Felski adds ) have a complex relation to the everyday . Sometimes , routine is an invaluable means of stav- ing off unwanted innovation ( not least when we turn to ...
... least among the scientific , political and policy elite ( at least in their public pronouncements ) . 14. This point can be related to the processes of governmentality in which social science plays a part in the ' making ' of persons by ...
... least the sense of one's mortality - a sense that is bound up with technoscientific prospects and their interlacing with personal hopes . Yet , as we shall see , ' hope ' is itself a complex notion that signals , at the least , both 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 |