Technoscience And Everyday Life: The Complex Simplicities of the MundaneThis 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. |
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Contents
Chapter 1 Between technoscience and everyday life | 1 |
Chapter 2 Versions of everyday life and technoscience | 16 |
making the corporeal in everyday life | 41 |
the micropolitics of everyday life | 63 |
Chapter 5 Technoscience and the making of society in everyday life | 87 |
Chapter 6 Technoscience and the enactment of everyday spatiality | 109 |
Chapter 7 Technoscience disordering and temporality in everyday life | 131 |
questions of technoscience everyday life and identity | 152 |
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Back cover | 187 |
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| Title | Technoscience And Everyday Life: The Complex Simplicities of the Mundane McGraw-Hill Education UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Sociology |
| Author | Michael, Mike |
| Edition | annotated |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2006 |
| ISBN | 0335217052, 9780335217052 |
| Length | 186 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Popular Culture |
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