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Title Inventive life : approaches to the new vitalism / edited by Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (199 pages)
Series Theory, culture & society
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Contents Inventive Life -- Mariam Fraser, Sarah Kember and Celia Lury<br /> Approaches to the New Vitalism<br />On the Vitality of Vitalism -- Monica Greco<br />Information and Knowledge -- Suhail Malik<br />Pharmaceutical Matters -- Andrew Barry,<br /> The Invention of Informed Materials<br />The Performativity of Code -- Adrian Mackenzie<br />Software and Cultures of Circulation<br />'Contemplating a Self-portrait as a Pharmacist' -- Celia Lury<br /> A Trade Mark Style of Doing Art and Science<br />The New Economy, Property and Personhood -- Lisa Adkins<br />Computing the Human -- N Katherine Hayles<br />Metamorphoses -- Sarah Kember<br /> The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility<br />Making Music Matter -- Mariam Fraser<br />
Summary This text demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. It guides readers through the introduction of understanding of information, complexity and cybernetics in the economy science and art
Notes "Originally published as Volume 22, Number 1 of Theory, Culture & Society"--T.p.verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Vitalism.
Science -- Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
Science -- Philosophy
Vitalism
Form Electronic book
Author Fraser, Mariam
Kember, Sarah
Lury, Celia
LC no. 2006277764
ISBN 9781446202784
144620278X
9781412920377
141292037X
9781446213377
1446213374
1283881853
9781283881852