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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... partly reflected in Christianity : Paul and others , such as Augustine , regarded the body as both a temple and enemy , at once bruised and honoured . This led to a split in the early church between ascetics ( with their privileging of ...
... partly because of their perceived commitment to after - sales service , partly because of a desire to support local business and thus retain the par- ticular character of the locality . Even at this initial point of inquiry , there is a ...
... partly rooted in the modern western ' love ' of speed ( see Millar and Schwarz 1998 ) – a love partly rooted in various technologies of movement ( including tele- communications ) . Of course , even in the modern West this ' love ' is ...
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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 |