ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

Situating technology and technologizing situations

chapter |26 pages

Walking boots

Distributing the environment

chapter |25 pages

Co(a)gents and control

Purifying ‘road rage'

chapter |21 pages

Disciplined and disciplining co(a)gents

The remote control and the couch potato

chapter |23 pages

Narrating co(a)gents

The case of the Hudogledog

chapter |14 pages

Conclusion

Closings and openings