ISBN:
1412920361
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141292037X
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9781412920360
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9781446202784
Language:
English
Pages:
199 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Inventive Life : Approaches to the New Vitalism
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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 while 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Inventive Life: Approaches to the New Vitalism; On the Vitality of Vitalism; Information and Knowledge; Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials; The Performativity of Code: Software and Cultures of Circulation; 'Contemplating a Self-Portrait as a Pharmacist': A Trade Mark Style of Doing Art and Science; The New Economy, Property and Personhood; Computing the Human; Metamorphoses: The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility; Making Music Matter; Index;
Note:
"Originally published as Volume 22, Number 1 of Theory, Culture & Society"--T.p.verso
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Available via World Wide Web
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