Inventive life : approaches to the new vitalism / / edited by Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury
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| Titolo: |
Inventive life : approaches to the new vitalism / / edited by Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 147 |
| Soggetto topico: | Vitalism |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| Altri autori: |
FraserMariam
KemberSarah
LuryCelia
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| 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: | 1-4739-7184-5 |
| 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.: | 9910808692903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)