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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... speed cameras ) . Judging by the proliferation of speed cameras , and the range of speed camera innovation , in the UK the ' criminalized ' driver model certainly holds sway . The logic of their widening introduction is ostensibly ...
... speed camera film . Here is another example of the everydayness of this oli- gopticon's operators , which is in this case surveilled through the media . There are also websites devoted to speed cameras ( notably , in the UK , http ...
... speed is 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 ...
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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 |