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Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / / Joost van Loon
| Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / / Joost van Loon |
| Autore | Loon Joost van. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302/.12 |
| Collana | International library of sociology |
| Soggetto topico |
Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk perception Technology - Social aspects Culture |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-58447-4
0-203-46638-1 0-585-44916-3 1-280-31788-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a sociology of virulence; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Technological culture and risk; The ascendance of risk; Risk, technology and culture; Information and communication technologies; Rationale; PART I Theoretical framework; 2 Cultivating risks: Paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck; Excess modernization; Individualization and reflexivity; The communicative logic of risk: autopoietic systems; Confronting subpolitics; Reason without faith
3 Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: Notes on Actor Network TheoryTechnoscience in action; Actor networks: the fixation of risks; Representations and virtual objects; Risk as a virtual object: the case of BSE/vCJD; Conclusion; 4 Assemblages and deviations: Biophilosophical reflections on risk; Politics, embodiment and technoculture: diffractions of Donna Haraway; Symbiosis and assemblage: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; A nomadology of risk; Contingency, risk and the monad: Jean-François Lyotard's apocalypse 5 A theoretical framework: Risk as the critical limit of technological cultureThe logic of en-presenting: visualization, signification and objectification; The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; PART II The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; 6 Cultivating waste: Excessive risks in an economy of opportunities; Waste and risk; Politicizing waste; Technological culture's response: a biopolitics of waste; Conclusion: waste as a virulent abject of modernity; 7 Emergent pathogen virulence: Understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture; Emergent pathogen virulence: Ebola Explanations of increased pathogen virulenceSigns of the times: an emergent apocalypse culture; Enrolling virulence; Conclusion; 8 Cyberrisks: Telematic symbiosis and computer viruses; Exposing 'the' environment: a cybernetic turn; Virtual risks and telematic symbiosis; Cyberrisks; The jouissance of viral terrorism; Neutralize the neurosis!; 9 Race, riots and risk: Media technologies and the engineering of moral panics; The warfare state; Moral panics; Racialization through mythification; The beating of Rodney King; The verdict; Media hybridities; Conclusion 10 Conclusion: Risk and apocalypse cultureRecapitulation; Against the autopoiesis of risk aversion: symbiosis and the nomadic war machine; Apocalypse cultures; Fidelity; Dangers and saving powers; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450706103321 |
Loon Joost van.
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / / Joost van Loon
| Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / / Joost van Loon |
| Autore | Loon Joost van. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302/.12 |
| Collana | International library of sociology |
| Soggetto topico |
Risk - Sociological aspects
Risk perception Technology - Social aspects Culture |
| ISBN |
1-134-58446-6
1-134-58447-4 0-203-46638-1 0-585-44916-3 1-280-31788-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a sociology of virulence; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Technological culture and risk; The ascendance of risk; Risk, technology and culture; Information and communication technologies; Rationale; PART I Theoretical framework; 2 Cultivating risks: Paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck; Excess modernization; Individualization and reflexivity; The communicative logic of risk: autopoietic systems; Confronting subpolitics; Reason without faith
3 Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: Notes on Actor Network TheoryTechnoscience in action; Actor networks: the fixation of risks; Representations and virtual objects; Risk as a virtual object: the case of BSE/vCJD; Conclusion; 4 Assemblages and deviations: Biophilosophical reflections on risk; Politics, embodiment and technoculture: diffractions of Donna Haraway; Symbiosis and assemblage: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; A nomadology of risk; Contingency, risk and the monad: Jean-François Lyotard's apocalypse 5 A theoretical framework: Risk as the critical limit of technological cultureThe logic of en-presenting: visualization, signification and objectification; The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; PART II The Four Riders of the Apocalypse; 6 Cultivating waste: Excessive risks in an economy of opportunities; Waste and risk; Politicizing waste; Technological culture's response: a biopolitics of waste; Conclusion: waste as a virulent abject of modernity; 7 Emergent pathogen virulence: Understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture; Emergent pathogen virulence: Ebola Explanations of increased pathogen virulenceSigns of the times: an emergent apocalypse culture; Enrolling virulence; Conclusion; 8 Cyberrisks: Telematic symbiosis and computer viruses; Exposing 'the' environment: a cybernetic turn; Virtual risks and telematic symbiosis; Cyberrisks; The jouissance of viral terrorism; Neutralize the neurosis!; 9 Race, riots and risk: Media technologies and the engineering of moral panics; The warfare state; Moral panics; Racialization through mythification; The beating of Rodney King; The verdict; Media hybridities; Conclusion 10 Conclusion: Risk and apocalypse cultureRecapitulation; Against the autopoiesis of risk aversion: symbiosis and the nomadic war machine; Apocalypse cultures; Fidelity; Dangers and saving powers; Notes; References; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783992903321 |
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Loon Joost van.
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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