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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... seen to be the founding analysts of everyday life , respectively , in relation to the issue of the representation of ... seen as the embodiment of the contemporary indissoluble interdependences of science and technology ; it can be ...
... seen to be at risk . Obviously it is often represented as an unhealthy and unproductive body , but it is also frequently regarded as an uncultured body ( in so far as it prefers the dubious pleasures of television watching and channel ...
... seen well . However , even this ' little seen well ' is subject to ruses : unseeable spaces are created through bodily movements , positionings and shapings . Moreover , as noted by Ball ( 2003 ) , those who do the surveilling are ...
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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 |