Inventive life : approaches to the new vitalism / edited by Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fraser, Mariam.

Kember, Sarah.

Lury, Celia.

Series:

Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)

Theory, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vitalism.

Physical Description:

199 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006.

Summary:

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 while 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.

Notes:

"Originally published as Volume 22, Number 1 of Theory, Culture & Society"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1412920361

141292037X

OCLC:

62178253