Between the Mundane and the Exotic Time for a Different Sociotechnical Stuff  

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Michael, Mike

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Time & Society vol. 12 no. 1 (Mar. 2003), page 127–143.
Topik: exotic; mundane; order/disorder; technology; temporality
Fulltext: 127TAS121.pdf (91.14KB)

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This article examines the relation of technology to temporality. Exotic technologies – iconically information and communication technologies and biotechnologies – typically evoke change and the novel character of the present epoch. Yet these enter a world of mundane technologies that putatively serve merely in social reproduction. It is argued that such a stark contrast is untenable. Drawing on the work of Michel Serres, the temporality of technology is re-conceived in terms of patterns of order/disorder to which both exotic and mundane technologies contribute. The minimal parameters needed to articulate the nature of such a complexly temporalized sociotechnical stuff are outlined.

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