TY - BOOK AU - Michael,Mike TI - Reconnecting culture, technology and nature: from society to heterogeneity T2 - International library of sociology SN - 0415201160 AV - HM846 .M53 2000 U1 - 306.46 21 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Technology KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction : situating technology and technologizing situations -- 2. Theorizing heterogeneity and distributedness -- 3. Walking boots : distributing the environment -- 4. Co(a)gents and control : purifying 'road rage' -- 5. Disciplined and disciplining co(a)gents : the remote control and the couch potato -- 6. Narrating co(a)gents : the case of the Hudogledog -- 7. Conclusion : closings and openings N2 - This text elaborates a methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder ER -