Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity

by Mike Michael

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134635214
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Mike Michael is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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;