Artificial Life

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.