Opis: Inventive Life - M Fraser

This book demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. Vitalism resists closure and reductionism in the life sciences whilst simultaneously addressing the object of life itself. The aim of this collection is to consider the questions that vitalism makes it possible to ask: questions about the role and status of life across the sciences, social sciences and humanities and questions about contingency, indeterminacy, relationality and change. All have special importance now, as the concepts of complexity, artificial life and artificial intelligence, information theory and cybernetics become increasingly significant in more and more fields of activity.Inventive Life - Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury Approaches to the New Vitalism On the Vitality of Vitalism - Monica Greco Information and Knowledge - Suhail Malik Pharmaceutical Matters - Andrew Barry, The Invention of Informed Materials The Performativity of Code - Adrian Mackenzie Software and Cultures of Circulation 'Contemplating a Self-portrait as a Pharmacist' - Celia Lury A Trade Mark Style of Doing Art and Science The New Economy, Property and Personhood - Lisa Adkins Computing the Human - N Katherine Hayles Metamorphoses - Sarah Kember The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility Making Music Matter - Mariam Fraser

Szczegóły: Inventive Life - M Fraser

Tytuł: Inventive Life
Autor: M Fraser
Producent: SAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN: 9781412920360
Rok produkcji: 2006
Ilość stron: 208
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.46 kg

Recenzje: Inventive Life - M Fraser