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Relays
Literature As an Epoch of the Postal System
Häftad, 1999
445 kr
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This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature—namely, the postal system—determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature. Language itself has the structure of a relay, where what is transmitted depends on a prior withholding. …
Social Systems
Häftad, 1996
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443 kr
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A major challenge confronting contemporary theory is to overcome its fixation on written narratives and the culture of print. In this presentation of a general theory of systems, Germany's most prominent and controversial social thinker sets out a contribution to sociology that reworks our …
Disunity of Science
Boundaries, Contexts, and Power
Av Peter Galison, David J. Stump
Inbunden, 1996
2033 kr
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Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of …
Disunity of Science
Boundaries, Contexts, and Power
Av Peter Galison, David J. Stump
Häftad, 1996
500 kr
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Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of …
Fetal Positions
Individualism, Science, Visuality
Av Karen Newman
Inbunden, 1997
1177 kr
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This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporary abortion debates. With its close interplay of visual and verbal texts, it traces both the history of fetal images from the sixteenth century onward …
Fetal Positions
Individualism, Science, Visuality
Av Karen Newman
Häftad, 1996
282 kr
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This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporary abortion debates. With its close interplay of visual and verbal texts, it traces both the history of fetal images from the sixteenth century onward …
On Beyond Living
Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
Inbunden, 1997
1358 kr
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What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical "softwares." Metaphors such …
On Beyond Living
Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences
Häftad, 1997
331 kr
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What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical "softwares." Metaphors such …
Inscribing Science
Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication
Häftad, 1998
574 kr
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Metaphors of inscription and writing figure prominently in all levels of discourse in and about science. The description of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics has been a common trope since at least the time of Galileo, a metaphor supplemented in our own day by the …
Self-Generation
Biology, Philosophy, and Literature Around 1800
Inbunden, 1997
795 kr
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The genealogy and function of epigenesis—the theory that organisms generate themselves under the guidance of a formative drive—provides a unique means of understanding the profound changes in philosophy, philosophy of language, and literature at the turn of the nineteenth century.The book begins by …
Toward a History of Epistemic Things
Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube
Häftad, 1997
387 kr
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In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in the dynamics of modern molecular biology. In a post-Kuhnian move away from the hegemony of theory, he develops a new epistemology of experimentation in …
Einstein Tower
An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory, and Astronomy
Inbunden, 1997
802 kr
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This book focuses on the "Einstein Tower," an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in 1920 to allow the German astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich to attempt to verify experimentally Einstein's general theory of relativity. Freundlich, who was the first German astronomer to show a …
Cinematograph of Words
Literature, Technique, and Modernization in Brazil
Inbunden, 1997
1561 kr
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This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. The author suggests that in these relations we can see more clearly the shape of a period that is otherwise usually defined from a literary perspective …
Dance Pathologies
Performance, Poetics, Medicine
Inbunden, 1998
1646 kr
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A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcendence of itself. Exploring dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a "pathology," this book asks what has subtended the …
Ethical Know-How
Action, Wisdom, and Cognition
Häftad, 1999
212 kr
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How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and cognitive science: first, understanding how we unconsciously execute habitual actions as a result of neurological and cognitive processes that are not …
Cinematograph of Words
Literature, Technique, and Modernization in Brazil
Häftad, 1997
380 kr
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This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. The author suggests that in these relations we can see more clearly the shape of a period that is otherwise usually defined from a literary perspective …
Sciences of the Flesh
Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis
Inbunden, 1998, 12-15 år
1995 kr
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"Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the twentieth century," Freud said late in his career, "but it did not drop from the skies ready-made." And in his speculative theories of modernism, Bruno Latour argued that "no science can exit from the network of its practice." Deploying Latour's …
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Inbunden, 1999
1583 kr
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation—all data had to pass through the needle's eye of …
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
Häftad, 1999
378 kr
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Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation—all data had to pass through the needle's eye of …
Observations on Modernity
Häftad, 1998
387 kr
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This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is modern about modernity?" and shows the origins and context of his theory.In the introductory essay, "Modernity in Contemporary Society," Luhmann …
Geometrical Landscapes
The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice
Inbunden, 2002
916 kr
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This challenging book argues that a new way of speaking of mathematics and describing it emerged at the end of the sixteenth century. Leading mathematicians like Hariot, Stevin, Galileo, and Cavalieri began referring to their field in terms drawn from the exploration accounts of Columbus and …
Solomon's Child
Method in the Early Royal Society of London
Inbunden, 2002
916 kr
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This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis Bacon's program for the methodological reform of the sciences. Instead, the book shows that Bacon's program shaped the Society's earliest work in …
Naturalizing Phenomenology
Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Av Jean Petitot, Francisco J. Varela m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2280 kr
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This ambitious work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of cognition—with its complex structure of disciplines, levels of explanation, and conflicting hypotheses.The book's primary goal is not to present a …
Irresistible Dictation
Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science
Av Steven Meyer
Inbunden, 2002
2099 kr
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Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in both the leading psychological laboratory and the leading medical school in the United States. This book unearths the turn-of-the-century scientific and philosophical …
Who Wrote the Book of Life?
A History of the Genetic Code
Av Lily E. Kay
Häftad, 2000
456 kr
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This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the …
Problems of Form
Av Dirk Baecker
Inbunden, 1999
1598 kr
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Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of social operation. George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form (1969) provides one way to conceive of such an operation. The present book is the first to make …
Problems of Form
Av Dirk Baecker
Häftad, 1999
387 kr
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Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of social operation. George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form (1969) provides one way to conceive of such an operation. The present book is the first to make …
Protoliterary
Steps Toward an Anthropology of Culture
Inbunden, 2002
1380 kr
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This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Central to the author's argument is the proposition that the idea of literature—at least as it has been understood in the West since the eighteenth …
Sciences of the Flesh
Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis
Häftad, 1998, 12-15 år
485 kr
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"Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the twentieth century," Freud said late in his career, "but it did not drop from the skies ready-made." And in his speculative theories of modernism, Bruno Latour argued that "no science can exit from the network of its practice." Deploying Latour's …
Dance Pathologies
Performance, Poetics, Medicine
Häftad, 1998
398 kr
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A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcendence of itself. Exploring dance's historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a "pathology," this book asks what has subtended the …
