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Artificial Life

Nigel Thrift

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  • 2051
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.

  • Författare: Nigel Thrift
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781412918527
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2051-01-14
  • Förlag: SAGE Publications Ltd