Risk and technological culture : towards a sociology of virulence / Joost van Loon.
"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 Anth...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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Table of 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.