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Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life
By:Phillip Vannini
Published on 2009 by Peter Lang

Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own – one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one’s body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine – from the participants’ perspective – the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.

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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you do not want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it absolutely was supposed to be read, then it would be a novel, not just a play. On top of that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for each character for a few pages). None folks had see the play before. None of us wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All this compounded to produce me pretty much hate reading classics for something similar to 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it really can fuck up your GPA. 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Everyone loves you and your in vain grasping from similes that will cannot approach the bilious hatred in the heart. That you are mine, as well as I'm yours. Figuratively conversing, of course. Now this is this evaluation: Macbeth by way of Bill Shakespeare is a good fictional work inside English language, along with anyone that disagrees is undoubtedly an asshole as well as a dumbhead.