Life : A Transdisciplinary Inquiry / edited by Jeremy Swartz and Janet Wasko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swartz, Jeremy, editor.

Wasko, Janet, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Biology.

Information behavior.

Neurosciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

Explores nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries, examining how information and communication are instrumental in and for living systems. Integrates a fuller and richer account through the physical, life, cognitive, social sciences and the arts. 51 b&w illus. This is the second volume in the MEDIA * LIFE * UNIVERSE Trilogy.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface to a Trilogy

Introduction

PART I: GENEALOGY

1. Life, Nature and Systems

2. What is Life?

3. Why Life Cannot Be Defined

PART II: INFORMATION AND ECOLOGIES

4. Propagating Organization: An Enquiry

5. Friends, Neighbours and Enemies: An Overview of the Communal and Social Biology of Plants

6. The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome

PART III: ENACTIONS AND VALUES

7. From Life to Mind

8. Metabolism and Drift

9. From ALife to No Life: On Mediatic Contexts of Life and Death

Part IV: Ecomediations and Education

10. Media and Information Literacies for a Living World: Engaging with a Cyberist Era

11. Journalistic Learning and Intentional Teaching with Technologies: STEM and Rural Communities

12. 'Dirtying' Ecocinema Studies

PART V: SYNTHESES AND BIODESIGNING

13. System Dynamics, Machine Learning and Structural Validation

14. Life from the Edge of Synthetic Biology

15. Templating Life: DNA as Nature's Hard Drive, Version 2.0

PART VI: ARTFUL LIVES AND METALIVING

16. Aqueous Mediums, Urban Architectures, Anadromous Beings

17. Satoyama and the Art of Rural Regeneration

18. Metaliving

Appendix: Exhibition Experience Nature

Notes on Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781789387940

1789387949

9781789387957

1789387957