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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... technoscientific artefacts operate as the facilitative backdrop to the doing of everyday life : door closers and velcro , heating systems and light fittings all render bodies and their senses ' comfortable ' . At the same time , these ...
... artefacts are themselves difficult to pin down . As we shall see further , technoscientific artefacts - though their uses might , in a number of ways , be ' scripted ' ( Akrich 1992 ) – can proliferate in their uses and meanings . As ...
... technoscientific artefacts and technoscientific trajectories : cat's eyes and cycle paths , hip replacements and pneumatic braking systems , information and communication technologies and capacity - building initiatives for nano- technology ...
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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 |