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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... resource , a medium and , indeed , a topic . Finally , we can note that technoscience also resources the way that the everyday ' unfolds ' : technoscientific futures entail hopes and anxieties that serve in the making of the everyday in ...
... resource in that it feeds the particular concerns about foods : it is ( a faction of ) technoscience that judges this or that artefact to be more or less risky . And technoscience also partly comprises a medium the label is a technical ...
... resource actors ( intellectually or corporeally - but both culturally ) in the micropolitics of everyday life . This ... resources for this process of ' working upon oneself ' are multiple and derived from disparate sources ( e.g. ...
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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 |