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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... scientific decision makers must make their processes of decision making transparent.11 However , such transparency is culturally problematic . The scepticism that prompted scientific institutions to ' open up ' in the first place does ...
... scientific citizen ( e.g. Irwin and Wynne 1996 ; Irwin and Michael 2003 ) has focused on the role of trust , and on the ways in which scientific institutions have alienated the public . As Michael ( 2002 ) has pointed out , this version ...
... scientific method , as about the identification of the real killer ( s ) . Instead , science can usefully be seen as an activity in which the material and the social are ordered together ( e.g. Latour 1987a ) . A partial implication of ...
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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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