Artificial Life
Nigel Thrift author Sarah Whatmore author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Publishing:14th Jan '51
£17.99
This title is due to be published on 14th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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- Hardback£60.00(9781412918527)
New developments in life science and information science invite rigorous inquiries into what we mean by - and ascribe to - ′life′. This text provides a summary of the key technical and legal developments and an account of why these developments are so unsettling to established categories like ′human′, ′technology′, and ′nature′.
In five short chapters – that discuss spaces of life; theories of life; the industrialization of life; spaces of property; and new imaginaries -
Artificial Life
· explains how research in biology and informational technology questions the division between human and animal, human and machine, bodies and data, cells and information
· provides an account vitalist and bio-philosophical thinking from Whitehead to Deleuze
· elucidates a new set of ideas and methods focused on complexity and emergence
The text outlines the principal themes with economy and directness; while the focus is on issues of active social concern - like stem cells research – which have stimulated theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences. This will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences.
ISBN: 9781412918534
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160 pages