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Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / Joost van Loon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of sociologyPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: ix, 234 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415229006
  • 9780415229005
  • 0415229014
  • 9780415229012
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.12 21
LOC classification:
  • HM1101 .L66 2002
Contents:
1. Introduction: technological culture and risk -- pt. 1. Theoretical framework -- 2. Cultivating risks: paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck -- 3. Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: notes on Actor Network Theory -- 4. Assemblages and deviations: biophilosophical reflections on risk -- 5. A theoretical framework: risk as the critical limit of technological culture -- pt. II. The Four Riders of the Apocalypse -- 6. Cultivating waste: excessive risks in an economy of opportunities -- 7. Emergent pathogen virulence: understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture -- 8. Cyberrisks: telematic symbiosis and computer viruses -- 9. Race, riots and risk: media technologies and the engineering of moral panics -- 10. Conclusion: risk and apocalypse culture.
Review: "The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk - from Ulrich Beck's foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash - and assesses the extent to which risk has impacted on modern societies. In this discussion Van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through substantive chapters on topics such as waste, emerging viruses, communication technologies and urban disorders. In so doing this innovative new book extends the debate to encompass theorists such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-Francois Lyotard."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: technological culture and risk -- pt. 1. Theoretical framework -- 2. Cultivating risks: paradoxes in the work of Ulrich Beck -- 3. Enrolling risks in technocultural practices: notes on Actor Network Theory -- 4. Assemblages and deviations: biophilosophical reflections on risk -- 5. A theoretical framework: risk as the critical limit of technological culture -- pt. II. The Four Riders of the Apocalypse -- 6. Cultivating waste: excessive risks in an economy of opportunities -- 7. Emergent pathogen virulence: understanding epidemics in apocalypse culture -- 8. Cyberrisks: telematic symbiosis and computer viruses -- 9. Race, riots and risk: media technologies and the engineering of moral panics -- 10. Conclusion: risk and apocalypse culture.

"The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in contemporary social theory. Risk and Technological Culture presents a critical discussion of the main theories of risk - from Ulrich Beck's foundational work to that of his contemporaries such as Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash - and assesses the extent to which risk has impacted on modern societies. In this discussion Van Loon demonstrates how new technologies are transforming the character of risk and examines the relationship between technological culture and society through substantive chapters on topics such as waste, emerging viruses, communication technologies and urban disorders. In so doing this innovative new book extends the debate to encompass theorists such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Jean-Francois Lyotard."--Jacket.

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