Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-169) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reconnecting culture, technology and nature

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

48138600

Responsibility statement

Mike Michael

Series statement

International library of sociology

Sub title

from society to heterogeneity

Summary

Annotation, 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 potato -- 6. Narrating co(a)gents : the case of the Hudogledog -- 7. Conclusion : closings and openings

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