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New developments in life science and information science invite rigorous inquiries into what we mean by - and ascribe to - 'life'. "Artificial Life" provides a summary of the key technical and legal developments and an account of why these developments are so unsettling to established categories like 'human', 'technology', and 'nature'. In five chapters - that discuss spaces of life; theories of life; the industrialization of life; spaces of property; and new imaginaries - "Artificial Life": explains how research in biology and informational technology questions the division between human and animal, human and machine, bodies and data, cells and information; provides an account vitalist and bio-philosophical thinking from Whitehead to Deleuze; and elucidates a new set of ideas and methods focused on complexity and emergence. "Artificial Life" outlines the principal themes with economy and directness; while the focus is on issues of active social concern - like stem cells research - which have stimulated theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Geography Human geography

• Full title: Artificial Life
• Author: Nigel Thrift, Sarah Whatmore
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9781412918534
• ID: 04785230
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Date of publishing: 30. August 2020

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