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  • The Body

    A Reader

    Edición de Mariam Fraser, Monica Greco ...
    Series series Routledge Student Readers
    The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. ... Leer más

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  • Inventive Life

    Approaches to the New Vitalism

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    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 ... Leer más

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    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    de Steven Pinker ...
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  • Information

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to ... Leer más

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  • The Wounded Storyteller

    Body, Illness & Ethics

    Updated second edition: "A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions." — Sociology of Heath and IllnessSince it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called "remission society" of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a ... Leer más

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  • The Transhumanist Reader

    Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future

    Edición de Max More, Natasha Vita-More ...
    The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinkingThe rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address key philosophical arguments for and against ... Leer más

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  • On Human Nature

    de Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Leer más

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  • The Social Logic of Space

    The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on the basis of a new way of describing and analysing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns. The methods are explained so that anyone interested in how towns or buildings are structured and how they work can make use of them. The book also presents a ... Leer más

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  • New Media

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  • Anthropology

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    de Tim Ingold ...
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  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

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    In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called ‘data economy’, is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck ... Leer más

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  • Time

    de Eva Hoffman ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books seriesTime has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these days we are tampering with time in ways that affect ... Leer más

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