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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172250903321

Autore

Michael Mike

Titolo

Reconnecting culture, technology, and nature : from society to heterogeneity / / Mike Michael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-63521-4

1-280-32851-7

0-203-17135-7

0-203-13533-4

9780203171357

9786610328512

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

International library of sociology

Disciplina

306.46

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Technology - Sociological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws connec