ISBN:
9781400873869
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white).
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in culture and technology
DDC:
599.9
Keywords:
Leben
;
Diskurs
;
Biologie
;
Meereskunde
;
Sound Studies
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Physical anthropology
;
Human biology
;
Life sciences
;
Ethnology
Abstract:
What is life? What is water? What is sound? This book investigates how contemporary scientists-biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers-are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the computational life sciences, marine biology, astrobiology, acoustics, and more, the text follows scientists to the limits of these categories.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2015
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.23943/princeton/9780691164809.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691164809.001.0001
