Reconnecting culture, technology and nature : from society to heterogeneity

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    • Michael, Mike

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Reconnecting culture, technology and nature : from society to heterogeneity

Mike Michael

(International library of sociology)

Routledge, 2000

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-169) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415201162

Description

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 connections between a wide range of literature including those concerned with the environment, consumption and the body.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Situating Technology and Technologizing Situations 2. Theorizing Heterogeneity and Distributedness 3. Walking Boots: Distributing the Environment 4. Co(a)gents and Control: Purifying 'Road Rage' 5. Disciplined and Disciplining Co(a)gents: The Remote Control and the Couch 6. Narrating Co(a)gents: The Case of the Hudogledog 7. Conclusions and Openings
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415201179

Description

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 connections between a wide range of literature including those concerned with the environment, consumption and the body.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Theorizing heterogeneity and distributedness
  • Chapter 3 Walking boots
  • Chapter 4 Co(a)gents and control
  • Chapter 5 Disciplined and disciplining co(a)gents
  • Chapter 6 Narrating co(a)gents
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion

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