Silicon Second Nature

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Silicon Second Nature

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Author : Stefan Helmreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-11-16

Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-16 with Science categories.

Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs—such as computer viruses—as new forms of life. Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich's look at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life—primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity—introduces readers to the people and programs connected with this unusual hybrid of computer science and biology. When biology becomes an information science, when DNA is downloaded into virtual reality, new ways of imagining "life" become possible. Through detailed dissections of the artifacts of Artifical Life, Helmreich explores how these novel visions of life are recombining with the most traditional tales told by Western culture. Because Artificial Life scientists tend to see themselves as masculine gods of their cyberspace creations, as digital Darwins exploring frontiers filled with primitive creatures, their programs reflect prevalent representations of gender, kinship, and race, and repeat origin stories most familiar from mythical and religious narratives. But Artificial Life does not, Helmreich says, simply reproduce old stories in new software. Much like contemporary activities of cloning, cryonics, and transgenics, the practice of simulating and synthesizing life in silico challenges and multiplies the very definition of vitality. Are these models, as some would claim, actually another form of the real thing? Silicon Second Nature takes Artifical Life as a symptom and source of our mutating visions of life itself.

Abstracts Of The Annual Meeting

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Author : American Anthropological Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Abstracts Of The Annual Meeting written by American Anthropological Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Anthropology categories.

Mother Jones

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Mother Jones written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Intellectual life categories.

Issues In Science And Technology

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

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Hunger For The Wild

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Author : Michael L. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

Hunger For The Wild written by Michael L. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.

Iron Age And Hardware Iron And Industrial Reporter

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

Iron Age And Hardware Iron And Industrial Reporter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Hardware categories.

American Anthropologist

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

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Interdisciplinary Computer Science Teaching

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Author : James Sheldon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Interdisciplinary Computer Science Teaching written by James Sheldon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Book collecting categories.

Lgbt Studies And Queer Theory

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Author : Karen Lovaas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006

Lgbt Studies And Queer Theory written by Karen Lovaas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.

This edited work examines the similarities and differences between LGBT studies and queer theory and the uneasy relationship between the two in the academic world.

Art In The Age Of Technoscience

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Author : Ingeborg Reichle
language : en
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Release Date : 2009-08-21

Art In The Age Of Technoscience written by Ingeborg Reichle and has been published by Springer Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-21 with Art categories.

Art, the Life Sciences, and the Humanities: In Search ofa Relationship Robert Ztuijnenberg Over the last decades there has been a distinctive effort in the arts to engage with science through participation in the actual practice of science. ' Exchange proj ects between artists and scientists, such as artist-in-lab projects, have become common and a large number oforganizations have emerged that stimulate and initiate collaboration between artists andscientists. ' Research funding organiza tions in thehumanities,such asthe British Arts and Humanities Research Coun cil (AHRC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), have also initiated all sorts of research programs that explore and support inter actions between art and science. ' Asa result, artists have grown more involved with scientific concerns and practices, and their increased interactions with scientists have also become a subject of study within the humanities. Why do artists openly seek to gain access to the domain of the sciences? And why do scholars in the humanities value collaboration between artists and scientists so much that theyare willing to spend research time and money on it? This interest in science, I argue in this preface for Ingeborg Reichle's bookArt in theAge of Tecbnoscience,' underscores that the arts and the humanities are searching to establish a new relationship with the natural sciences as well as with each other. Art and Science T he relationship between thearts and thesciences hasbeen subject to permanent change over the past two centuries.