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  • Reactivating Elements

    Chemistry, Ecology, Practice

    Serier serie Elements
    The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought ... Læs mere

    193,49 kr.

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  • The Systems View of Life

    A Unifying Vision

    Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and ... Læs mere

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

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  • The End of the Long Summer

    Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

    For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already ... Læs mere

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  • Biology Under the Influence

    Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the ... Læs mere

    184,11 kr.

  • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984-2019

    Serier serie Compass
    Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates the full range of scientific inquiries that will help us to understand and survive on a complex planet.This volume ... Læs mere

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  • The Anthrobscene

    af Jussi Parikka ...
    Serier serie Forerunners: Ideas First
    Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a ... Læs mere

    38,91 kr.

  • SuperCooperators

    Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to LifeIf life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger?Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated ... Læs mere

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  • Earthy Realism

    The Meaning of Gaia

    af Mary Midgley ...
    Serier Bog 30 - Societas
    GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle ... Læs mere

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  • Geontologies

    A Requiem to Late Liberalism

    In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and ... Læs mere

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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Science

    af Jerome Ravetz ...
    Serier serie No-Nonsense Guides
    Science is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the twenty-first century our last. To make sense of this, we need to let go of old ideas and assumptions.This No-Nonsense Guide to Science introduces a new way of thinking about science, moving away from ideas of perfect certainty and objectivity. We must ... Læs mere

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  • The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

    Rethinking modernity in a new epoch

    Serier serie Routledge Environmental Humanities
    The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question.The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival ... Læs mere

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