・ISBN 978-1-4129-1853-4 paper US$ 34.00
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著者・編者 | Thrift, Nigel / Whatmore, Sarah, |
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出版社 | (SAGE Publications Inc, US) |
出版年 | 2051 |
ページ数 | 160 pp. |
ニュース番号 | <A03-35881> |
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.