Technoscience and Everyday Life: The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane

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Open 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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Versions of everyday life and technoscience
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making the corporeal in everyday life
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the micropolitics of everyday life
63
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Mike Michael is Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published extensively in three main areas: Public Understanding of Science, Sociology of Biotechnology, and Sociology of Mundane Technologies.

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