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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... less fraught with difference . Technoscience comes in various versions . It can be seen as the embodiment of the contemporary indissoluble interdependences of science and technology ; it can be regarded as a process of circulation of ...
... less in evidence now than at the time of De Certeau's team's studies ) . In both cases , a ' default ' everyday is assumed in which the norm is repetition or discipline , habit or order . By contrast , as Bennett ( 2004 ; also Michael ...
... less ' shape ' , the body and its comportments . Latour provides another compelling example of this ' local production of bodies ' in his famous discussion of the door closer ( or door groom - the device at the top of a door that slowly ...
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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 |