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Titolo: | Inventive life [[electronic resource] ] : approaches to the new vitalism / / edited by Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury |
Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina: | 147 |
306.01 | |
Soggetto topico: | Vitalism |
Science - Philosophy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | FraserMariam KemberSarah LuryCelia |
Note generali: | "Originally published as Volume 22, Number 1 of Theory, Culture & Society"--T.p.verso. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | This text demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. It guides readers through the introduction of understanding of information, complexity and cybernetics in the economy science and art. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Inventive life |
ISBN: | 1-4462-1337-4 |
1-283-88185-3 | |
1-4462-0278-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462330503321 |
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