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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... routine entail ' a much more complex blend of the social and the psychic ' through which we ( and she means people in general ) ' become who we are ' ( 1999-2000 , p . 21 ) . Fur- ther , Lefebvre's tendency to link ' repetition with ...
... routine expert business we would almost cer- tainly remain unaware of very many problems that have come to public at- tention . Indeed , such environmental conditions as ozone depletion , climate change and increasing ionizing radiation ...
... routine , even if what it is that is predictable and routine has changed . According to Hillman and Gibbs ( 1998 ) in their popularizing book Century Makers , there are many ' clever things we take for granted ' that have ' changed our ...
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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 |