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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... mobile phones by walkers to alert mountain rescue services . The opening paragraph read : The distress call from the mobile phone of a couple stranded up a mountain in the Lake District sounded serious . ' We are lost in the mist ...
... mobile phone to summon mountain rescue , which has been reduced from an emergency to a taxi service ( or transforming the rescue personnel , as the article headline states , ' from life- savers to nannies ' ) . We can read this ...
... mobile phone enter them . In other words , it might behove us to think in terms of a ' mutual warping ' between an ' entity ' and ' its space ' : a target entity such as a mobile phone imports aspects of its ' previous spaces ' into new ...
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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 |