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Record Nr.

UNISA996202222703316

Autore

Michael Mike

Titolo

Reconnecting culture, technology and nature [[electronic resource] ] : from society to heterogeneity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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

306.01

306.46

Soggetti

Social aspects

Sociological aspects

Technology

Technology - Social aspects

Social Change

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

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