Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and BeyondPrinceton University Press, 27. 10. 2015 - Počet stran: 328 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, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. |
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A Keyword Entry with Sophia Roosth | 19 |
CHAPTER 3 〇 An Archaeology of Artificial Life Underwater | 35 |
Formatting the TwentyFirstCentury Whale | 44 |
Figuring Coral 18392010 | 48 |
Species Race Sex and the Human Microbiome | 62 |
Designing the Astrobiological Imagination | 73 |
Theory Machines Anthropology Oceanization | 94 |
Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science | 137 |
CHAPTER 12 Seashell Sound | 155 |
CHAPTER 13 Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies with Michele Friedner | 164 |
CHAPTER 14 Chimeric Sensing | 173 |
Life Water Sound Resounding | 183 |
Acknowledgments | 189 |
Notes | 195 |
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