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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... suggests a Lefebvrian repetition that ' reduces ' the body's capacities ( in a trade - off for a certain degree of ' convenience ' – e.g. fewer drafts and less slamming ) , it also points to the way that this closing down is grounded ...
... suggests that these re- lationalities between pets and owner suggest that together they can be viewed as a singular entity ( what he calls the ' pitpercat ' made up of pit bull terrier , person and cat ) . He suggests that it is this ...
... suggests that , with the rise of ubiquitous computing in which ' all the power of information technology will be harnessed by and coupled with the body ' ( p . 756 ) , we will be , potentially at least , party to a posthuman condition ...
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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 |