On Inscriptions and Ex-Inscriptions: The Production of Immediacy in a Home Telecare Service

In this paper we explore from a topological perspective how immediate care is enacted in a home telecare service and critically discuss how immediacy is defined. One approach is to conceive immediate care delivering as dependant on how disciplined the home telecare service inscriptions are and therefore on how uneventful and smooth the assistance is. However, this paper aims to put forward a more complex explanation by pointing out that immediate care delivering is produced not only by expelling indeterminacy but also by taking advantage of it. In order to do this we will use Bachelard's concept of ex-inscription to shed light on the practices and techniques that transform events into opportunities (rather than obstacles) for delivering immediate care to home telecare service users.

[1]  Theo Vurdubakis,et al.  VISIONS OF ORGANIZATION AND ORGANIZATIONS OF VISION: THE REPRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT , 1997 .

[2]  Robert Cheng Huat Chia.  Essai: Time, Duration and Simultaneity: Rethinking Process and Change in Organizational Analysis , 2002 .

[3]  Michael Lynch,et al.  Protocols, practices, and the reproduction of technique in molecular biology. , 2002, The British journal of sociology.

[4]  E. Schegloff.  The routine as achievement , 1986 .

[5]  Tiago Moreira,et al.  Surgical Monads: A Social Topology of the Operating Room , 2004 .

[6]  François Cooren,et al.  Arguments for a Plurified View of the Social World , 2005 .

[7]  Christian Heath,et al.  Collaboration and controlCrisis management and multimedia technology in London Underground Line Control Rooms , 1992, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).

[8]  Nick Lee,et al.  Social Order and the Blank Figure , 2000 .

[9]  Geoff Jones,et al.  Spacing and Timing , 2004 .

[10]  John Law,et al.  Situating Technoscience: An Inquiry into Spatialities , 2001 .

[11]  I. Stengers.  Events and Histories of Knowledge , 2005 .

[12]  Carl May,et al.  Remote Doctors and Absent Patients: Acting at a Distance in Telemedicine? , 2003 .

[13]  Scott Kirsch,et al.  The Incredible Shrinking World? Technology and the Production of Space , 1995 .

[14]  Marilyn R. Whalen,et al.  Improvisational choreography in teleservice work. , 2002, The British journal of sociology.

[15]  Vicky Singleton.  Stabilizing Instabilities: the Role of the Laboratory in the United Kingdom Cervical Screening Progr , 1998 .

[16]  J. Law,et al.  After Networks , 2000 .

[17]  M Berg,et al.  Problems and promises of the protocol. , 1997, Social science & medicine.

[18]  N. Thrift.  Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , 1995 .

[19]  John Urry,et al.  Social Relations, Space and Time , 1985 .

[20]  K. Hoskin,et al.  Organizing Madness: Reflections on the Forms of the Form , 1998 .

[21]  Adrian Mackenzie.  The Technicity of Time , 2001 .

[22]  J. Murdoch.  The spaces of actor-network theory , 1998 .

[23]  Keith Hoskin.  Spacing, Timing and the Invention of Management , 2004 .

[24]  A. Mol,et al.  Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology , 1994, Social studies of science.