Refracting through Technologies: Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms

by Ericka Johnson

Book Overview

This book explores the 'material-discursive entanglement' of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. Beginning with the conundrum of how the things that make up our world are both shaped by and shape the ways in which we talk about, engage with and think about them, the author accepts the entanglement and then works backwards, using the metaphor of refraction to help articulate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138564192
• ISBN13: 9781138564190
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"