Inventive Life : Approaches to the New Vitalism
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1412920361
ISBN-13
9781412920360
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint
SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 2006
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
470 grams
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesCultural studiesSocial theory
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"Inventive Life" demonstrates how and why vitalism - the idea that life cannot be explained by the principles of mechanism - matters now. The selected chapters guide readers through the introduction of understandings of information, complexity and cybernetics in the economy, science and art.
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 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.
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