This book demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. Vitalism resists closure and reductionism in the life sciences whilst simultaneously addressing the object of life itself. The aim of this collection is to consider the questions that vitalism makes it possible to ask: questions about the role and status of life across the sciences, social sciences and humanities and questions about contingency, indeterminacy, relationality and change. All have special importance now, as the concepts of complexity, artificial life and artificial intelligence, information theory and cybernetics become increasingly significant in more and more fields of activity. INDICE: Inventive Life - Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury Approaches to the New VitalismOn the Vitality of Vitalism - Monica GrecoInformation and Knowledge - Suhail MalikPharmaceutical Matters - Andrew Barry, The Invention of Informed MaterialsThe Performativity of Code - Adrian MackenzieSoftware and Cultures of Circulation'Contemplating a Self-portrait as a Pharmacist' - Celia Lury A Trade Mark Style of Doing Art and ScienceThe New Economy, Property and Personhood - Lisa AdkinsComputing the Human - N Katherine HaylesMetamorphoses - Sarah Kember The Myth of Evolutionary PossibilityMaking Music Matter - Mariam Fraser
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-2037-7
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
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