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  • Simulation and Its Discontents

    de Sherry Turkle, William J. Clancey, Stefan Helmreich, Yanni Alexander Loukissas, Natasha Myers ...
    Series series Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
    How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A Book of Waves

    de Stefan Helmreich ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Water Logics

    Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities

    de Matthew Brauer, Olivia Durand, Brian T. Edwards, Stefan Helmreich, Charles Heller, Nicole Horne, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Shanaaz Mohammed, Martin Munro, Supriya M. Nair, Aaron Pinnix, Nathalie Roelens, Marie Sandoz, Philip Steinberg, Bradley Stephens, Anne-Katrin Weber ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itselfWater Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Silicon Second Nature

    Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated With a New Preface

    de Stefan Helmreich ...
    Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs—such as computer viruses—as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Sounding the Limits of Life

    Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

    de Stefan Helmreich, Sophia Roosth, Michele Friedner ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
    What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Superhumanity

    Design of the Self

    Edición de Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle, Mark Wigley ...
    A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the selfThe field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to the world of material objects but rather extends from carefully crafted individual styles and online identities to the surrounding galaxies of personal devices, new materials, interfaces, networks, systems, infrastructures, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Thinking with Water

    de Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod, Astrida Neimanis ...
    As a life-giving but also potentially destructive substance, water occupies a prominent place in the imagination. At the same time, water issues are among the most troubling ecological and social concerns of our time.Water is often studied only as a "resource," a quantifiable and instrumentalized substance. Thinking with Water instead invites readers to consider how water - with its potent ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Hyperobjects

    Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

    de Timothy Morton ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • This Idea Is Brilliant

    Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 23 - Edge Question Series
    Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today’s most innovative mindsWhat scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (“The world’s smartest website”—The Guardian), presented to 205 of the world’s most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum—award-winning ... Leer más

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  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea

    Evolution and the Meaning of Life

    de Daniel C. Dennett ...
    In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Environmental Humanities

    Voices from the Anthropocene

    Edición de Serpil Oppermann, Serenella Iovino ...
    Series series Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
    This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.At a time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the scientific, ethical, ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    de K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD