Sounding the Limits of Life :: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond.

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 abstr...

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1. Verfasser: Helmreich, Stefan
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Schriftenreihe:Princeton studies in culture and technology.
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Zusammenfassung: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. Through examinations of the.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (325)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:140087386X
9781400873869
9780691164809
0691164800

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