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Technoscience and everyday life : the complex simplicities of the mundane

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.
Print Book, English, 2006
Open University, Maidenhead, Berkshire, Inglaterra, 2006
186 p
9780335217069, 9780335217052, 0335217060, 0335217052
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Why do technoscience and everyday life belong together? Chapter 2. Versions of everyday life and technoscience. Chapter 3. Bodies: making the corporeal in everyday life. Chapter 4. Self-identity: becoming ‘oneself’ in everyday life. Chapter 5. Citizenship: the politics of everyday life. Chapter 6. Society and Sociology: how society is produced by technoscience in everyday life. Chapter 7. Space and Scale: the changing dimensions of everyday life. Chapter 8. Time and Temporality: technoscience and patterns of dis/ordering in everyday life. Chapter 9. Others: naming technoscience’s ‘others’ and understanding their role in everyday life. Chapter 10. Conclusion