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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... matter of need ( supplementing the shortfall of endogenous hormone ) , becomes a matter of want ( that is , becomes routinely available to short normals as en- abled by the biotechnologically mediated abundance of the hormone ) , which ...
... matter of concern becomes mediated , in part , through emotion displays : one's position is rendered ' plausible ' or ' credible ' through the ostensible fact that one has suffered . If such is the stuff of everyday technoscientific ...
... matter of considerable interest over the last 30 or so years . Lay publics are of course highly malleable entities . As already hinted at , the emergence of science as a set of distinct institutionalized disciplines went hand in hand ...
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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 |