Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature write by Mike Michael. This book was released on 2012-10-12. Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion
Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion write by D. Kidner. This book was released on 2012-03-06. Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While the historical development of symbolic power has benefitted humanity enormously, there is an insidious and seldom recognised price that goes beyond environmental degradation and cultural disintegration. With insights from both social and natural sciences, this book explores the changing character of subjectivity in contemporary life.
Science, Technology And Culture
Science, Technology And Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science, Technology And Culture write by Bell, David. This book was released on 2005-11-01. Science, Technology And Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces students to cultural studies of science and technology. It equips students with an understanding of science and technology as aspects of culture, and an appreciation of the importance of thinking about science and technology from a cultural studies perspective. Individual chapters focus on topics including popular representations of science and scientists, the place of science and technology in everyday life, and the contests over amateur, fringe and pseudo-science. Each chapter includes case studies ranging from the MMR vaccine to UFOs, and from nuclear war to microwave ovens. For students in cultural studies, media studies, sociology and science and technology studies.
Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture
Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture write by Dale Southerton. This book was released on 2011-09-15. Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The three-volume Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture covers consuming societies around the world, from the Age of Enlightenment to the present, and shows how consumption has become intrinsic to the world′s social, economic, political, and cultural landscapes. Offering an invaluable interdisciplinary approach, this reference work is a useful resource for researchers in sociology, political science, consumer science, global studies, comparative studies, business and management, human geography, economics, history, anthropology, and psychology. The first encyclopedia to outline the parameters of consumer culture, the Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture provides a critical, scholarly resource on consumption and consumerism over time. Some of the topics included are: Theories and concepts Socio-economic change (i.e. social mobility) Socio-demographic change (i.e. immigration, aging) Identity and social differentiation (i.e. social networks) Media (i.e. broadcast media) Style and taste (i.e. fashion, youth culture) Mass consumptions (i.e. retail culture) Ethical Consumption (i.e. social movements) Civil society (i.e. consumer advocacy) Environment (i.e. sustainability) Domestic consumption (i.e. childhood, supermarkets) Leisure (i.e. sport, tourism) Technology (i.e. planned obsolescence) Work (i.e. post industrial society) Production (i.e. post fordism, global economy) Markets (i.e. branding) Institutions (i.e. religion) Welfare (i.e. reform, distribution of resources) Urban life (i.e. suburbs)
The Culture of Science
The Culture of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of Science write by Martin W. Bauer. This book was released on 2012-03-15. The Culture of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its influence on particular developments (e.g. stem cell research); and the demarcation of science from non-science as well as issues including the ‘incommensurability’ versus ‘cognitive polyphasia’ and the cognitive (in)tolerance of different systems of knowledge.
