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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451359403321

Autore

Michael Mike

Titolo

Technoscience and everyday life [[electronic resource] ] : the complex simplicities of the mundane / / by Mike Michael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : Open University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-12956-9

9786611129569

0-335-23004-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

303.483

Soggetti

Technology - Social aspects

Science - Social aspects

Electronic books.

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

Front cover; Half title; Title; Copy right; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Between technoscience and everyday life; Chapter 2 Versions of everyday life and technoscience; Chapter 3 Technoscientific bodies: making the corporeal in everyday life; Chapter 4 Technoscientific citizenship: the micropolitics of everyday life; Chapter 5 Technoscience and the making of society in everyday life; Chapter 6 Technoscience and the enactment of everyday spatiality; Chapter 7 Technoscience, dis/ordering and temporality in everyday life

Chapter 8 Conclusion: questions of technoscience, everyday life and identity References; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the complex relations between technoscience and everyday life. This book 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.