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Genesis
Häftad, 1997
263 kr
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This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genèse captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge, anxiety, and violence. Written in a unique blend of scientific discourse and lyrical outburst, …
Knowable and the Unknowable
Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures"
Häftad, 2002
459 kr
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This book investigates the relationships between modern mathematics and science (in particular, quantum mechanics) and the mode of theorizing that Arkady Plotnitsky defines as "nonclassical" and identifies in the work of Bohr, Heisenberg, Lacan, and Derrida. Plotinsky argues that their scientific …
Natural Contract
Häftad, 1995
319 kr
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Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1990 book Le Contrat Naturel, Serres calls for a natural contract to be negotiated between Earth and its inhabitants.World history is often referred to …
Troubadour of Knowledge
Häftad, 1997
323 kr
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What do we do when we raise a child, teach a student, or educate a person as a member of society? For the French philosopher Michel Serres, all of these forms of pedagogy require painful yet exhilarating departures from home and encounters with Otherness. Like a swimmer who plunges into the river's …
Mapping Michel Serres
Av Niran Abbas
Häftad, 2005
459 kr
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"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]The work of Michel …
Networking
Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2011
441 kr
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This compelling new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communications technology. Laura Otis, neuroscientist, literary scholar, and recent recipient …
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
Michel Serres with Bruno Latour
Häftad, 1995
323 kr
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Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno …
Embodying Technesis
Technology beyond Writing
Häftad, 2000
474 kr
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Critics of contemporary culture have argued that critical theory must keep pace with technological change and, in the process, have instituted a theoretical model that restricts consideration of technology's impact on human experience to those dimensions that can be captured in language. In this …
Of Two Minds
Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics
Häftad, 1996
371 kr
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In Of Two Minds, noted hypertext novelist and writing teacher Michael Joyce explores the new technologies, mediums, and modalities for teaching and writing, ranging from interactive multimedia to virtual reality. As author of Afternoon: A Story, which the New York Times Book Review termed "the most …
Dripping Dry
Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest
Häftad, 2001
406 kr
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More than any other single characteristic, aridity defines the American West. Water scarcity and its biologically critical function have also molded the regional literature of the region. Using novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Edward Abbey, John Steinbeck and Mary Austin, Dripping Dry combines …
Othermindedness
The Emergence of Network Culture
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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Michael Joyce's new collection continues to examine the connections between the poles of art and instruction, writing and teaching in the form of what Joyce has called theoretical narratives, pieces that are both narratives of theory and texts in which theory often takes the form of narrative. His …
Embodying Technesis
Technology beyond Writing
Inbunden, 2000
1471 kr
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Critics of contemporary culture have argued that critical theory must keep pace with technological change and, in the process, have instituted a theoretical model that restricts consideration of technology's impact on human experience to those dimensions that can be captured in language. In this …
Knowable and the Unknowable
Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures"
Inbunden, 2002
1264 kr
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This book investigates the relationships between modern mathematics and science (in particular, quantum mechanics) and the mode of theorizing that Arkady Plotnitsky defines as "nonclassical" and identifies in the work of Bohr, Heisenberg, Lacan, and Derrida. Plotinsky argues that their scientific …
Transgressive Readings
The Texts of Franz Kafka and Max Planck
Inbunden, 1990
1160 kr
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Argues for a critical awareness of language across the boundaries of disciplines
Artificial Paradise
Science Fiction and American Reality
Inbunden, 1995
1295 kr
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"The Artificial Paradise shows how science fiction is a powerful purveyor of cultural myths rooted in the history of the West, myths that shape American attitudes toward nature, technology, and the pursuit of happiness. Sharona Ben-Tov posits the theory that science fiction is an American "national …
Genesis
Inbunden, 1995
1057 kr
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This English translation of Michel Serres' 1982 book Genèse captures in lucid prose the startling breadth and depth of his thinking, as he probes the relations between order, disorder, knowledge, anxiety, and violence. Written in a unique blend of scientific discourse and lyrical outburst, …
Meaning of Consciousness
Inbunden, 1997
1195 kr
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Though the topic of consciousness has been with us for centuries, no one until now has been willing or able to develop a systematic and holistic theory of its organization and structure. The Meaning of Consciousness begins this task in a unique and entirely original manner, emphasizing the …
Simplicity and Complexity
Pondering Literature, Science, and Painting
Inbunden, 1998
1229 kr
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Behind every apparently placid surface there lies an unruly ocean of complexity. Fractals, chaos theory, and dissipative structures bear witness to these hidden complexities of the universe. Complementing these ideas in the sciences, fiction from the likes of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, …
Networking
Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2001
1300 kr
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This compelling interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communications technology, demonstrating that the image of the network is actually centuries old. …
Rethinking Reality
Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature
Inbunden, 2002
1295 kr
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How deeply into the structure of physical reality do the effects of our way of representing it reach? To what extent do constructivist accounts of scientific theorizing involve realist assumptions, and vice versa? This book provides a lucid and concise introduction to contemporary debates, taking …
Mapping Michel Serres
Av Niran Abbas
Inbunden, 2005
1195 kr
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"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]The work of Michel …
