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Inventive Life
Approaches to the New Vitalism

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208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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 artificial intelligence, information theory, and cybernetics become increasingly significant in more and more fields of activity.
Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury
Inventive Life
Approaches to the New Vitalism

 
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The Invention of Informed Materials

 
Adrian Mackenzie
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Software and Cultures of Circulation
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A Trade Mark Style of Doing Art and Science

 
Lisa Adkins
The New Economy, Property and Personhood
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Computing the Human
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Metamorphoses
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Sarah Kember

Celia Lury

For a long time I have had two main areas of research interest: sociology of culture and feminist theory.... More About Author

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