1st Edition

Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature From Society to Heterogeneity

By Mike Michael Copyright 2000
186 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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;

Biography

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