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Experiments with Life Itself

Author : Francisco Gonzalez de Canales
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0989331717
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Experiments with Life Itself written by Francisco Gonzalez de Canales and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to lack of understanding or convenient silence, there is void of dark years, of wars, exile and misfortune about which little can be said. However, it was in these dark times, as in so many other revealing moments in the history of culture, that experimental and profoundly invigorating experiences were taking place. Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. In Experiments with Life Itself, Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation.

Life Itself

Author : Boyce Rensberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195125009
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Life Itself written by Boyce Rensberger and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran science writer Boyce Rensberger takes readers to the front lines of cell research with some of the brightest investigators in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. He maintains that the solutions to the most pressing challenges facing scientists today will be found in the innermost workings of the cell. 52 illustrations.

Experimental Life

Author : Robert Mitchell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421410885
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Life written by Robert Mitchell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study has investigated what it meant for artists to experiment and how those experiments related to their interest in the concept of life. Experimental Life draws on approaches and ideas from contemporary science studies, proposing the concept of experimental vitalism to show both how Romantic authors appropriated the concept of experimentation from the sciences and the impact of their appropriation on post-Romantic concepts of literature and art. Robert Mitchell navigates complex conceptual arenas such as network theory, gift exchange, paranoia, and biomedia and introduces new concepts, such as cryptogamia, chylopoietic discourse, trance-plantation, and the poetics of suspension. As a result, Experimental Life is a wide-ranging summation and extension of the current state of literary studies, the history of science, cultural critique, and theory.

Serial Killers

Author : Mark Seltzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135206872
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Serial Killers written by Mark Seltzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass murder, we are surrounded by the accident from which we cannot avert our eyes. Bringing depth and shadow to our collective portrait of what a serial killer must be, Mark Seltzer draws upon popular sources, scholarly analyses, and the language of psychoanalysis to explore the genesis of this uniquely modern phenomenon. Revealed is a fascination with machines and technological reproduction, with the singular and the mass, with definitions of self, other, and intimacy. What emerges is a disturbing picture of how contemporary culture is haunted by technology and the instability of identity.

Experimental Economics

Author : Nicolas Jacquemet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107060273
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Economics written by Nicolas Jacquemet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, experimental economics has moved from a fringe activity to become a standard tool for empirical research. With experimental economics now regarded as part of the basic tool-kit for applied economics, this book demonstrates how controlled experiments can be a useful in providing evidence relevant to economic research. Professors Jacquemet and L'Haridon take the standard model in applied econometrics as a basis to the methodology of controlled experiments. Methodological discussions are illustrated with standard experimental results. This book provides future experimental practitioners with the means to construct experiments that fit their research question, and new comers with an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of controlled experiments. Graduate students and academic researchers working in the field of experimental economics will be able to learn how to undertake, understand and criticise empirical research based on lab experiments, and refer to specific experiments, results or designs completed with case study applications.

A History of Indian Literature in English

Author : Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850656814
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book A History of Indian Literature in English written by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2003 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together some of the best writers and thinkers on Indian literature in English from Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie, covering everything of literary significance in India.

Experimental Medicine

Author : Claude Bernard
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412823227
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Experimental Medicine written by Claude Bernard and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among great men, Claude Bernard should be counted fortunate in that he has not become a mythical figure. Pasteur's discoveries are hardly more remarkable, though their immediate influence has been much greater, and his horizon was incontestably less broad. But Bernard remains a plain man, highly distinguished, but not obscured by the growth of a legend. His physiological researches may have immortalized his name, but Experimental Medicine never exerted the influence which it promised. What Bernard saw as the future of physiology remained for decades obscured, so his writings were only half understood. His influence, however, was exerted far beyond medicine. Stewart Wolf suggests that Claude Bernard's genius in physiological experimentation is similar to the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes' capacity to solve crimes and William Osler's uncanny abilities in clinical diagnosis. Like both of those creative searchers, Claude Bernard typically focused on findings that did not accord with prevailing theory. His curiosity led him to attempt to explain the finding by a tentative hypothesis; he would then devise an experiment. Although he sought for a quantitative result that might serve as a basis of a theory, he had little confidence in statistics as a guide to certainty. Bernard's opposition scientists' prevailing habit of segregating their inquiries into systems rather than studying the unified organism is particularly striking. This volume will be important for those in the medical field as well as those interested in the history of science.

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Author : Claude Bernard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486204000
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine written by Claude Bernard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1957-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basic principles of scientific research from the great French physiologist whose contributions in the 19th century included the discovery of vasomotor nerves; nature of curare and other poisons in human body; more.

Empiricisms

Author : Barry Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197508944
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Empiricisms written by Barry Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping volume of comparative philosophy and intellectual history, Barry Allen reassesses the values of experience and experiment in European and world traditions. His work traces the history of empirical philosophy from its birth in Greek medicine to its emergence as a philosophy of modern science. He surveys medical empiricism, Aristotlean and Epicurean empiricism, the empiricism of Gassendi and Locke, logical empiricism, radical empiricism, transcendental empiricism, and varieties of anti-empiricism from Parmenides to Wilfrid Sellars. Throughout this extensive intellectual history, Allen builds an argument in three parts. A richly detailed account of history's empiricisms in Part One establishes a context in Part Two for reconsidering the work of the radical empiricists--William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, and Gilles Deleuze, each treated in a dedicated chapter. What is "radical" about them is their effort to return empiricism from epistemology to the ontology and natural philosophy where it began. In Part Three, Allen sets empirical philosophy in conversation with Chinese tradition, considering technological, scientific, medical, and alchemical sources, as well as selected Confucian, Daoist, and Mohist classics. The work shows how philosophical reflection on experience and a profound experimental practice coexist in traditional China with no interaction or even awareness of each other, slipping over each other instead of intertwining as they did in European history, a difference Allen attributes to a different understanding of the value of knowledge. Allen's book recovers empiricism's neglected, multi-textured contexts, and elucidates the enduring value of experience, to arrive at an idea of what is living and dead in philosophical empiricism.

Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects

Author : Francisco Martínez
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800081081
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects written by Francisco Martínez and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary collaborations, the opportunity to use exhibitions as research devices, and the role of experimentation in the exhibition process. Francisco Martínez increases our understanding of the relationship between contemporary art, design and anthropology, imagining creative ways to engage with the contemporary world and developing research infrastructures across disciplines. He opens up a vast field of methodological explorations, providing a language to reconsider ethnography and objecthood while producing knowledge with people of different backgrounds.

Barbarism

Author : Michel Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441129650
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism written by Michel Henry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbarism represents a critique, from the perspective of Michel Henry's unique philosophy of life, of the increasing potential of science and technology to destroy the roots of culture and the value of the individual human being. For Henry, barbarism is the result of a devaluation of human life and culture that can be traced back to the spread of quantification, the scientific method and technology over all aspects of modern life. The book develops a compelling critique of capitalism, technology and education and provides a powerful insight into the political implications of Henry's work. It also opens up a new dialogue with other influential cultural critics, such as Marx, Husserl, and Heidegger. First published in French in 1987, Barbarism aroused great interest as well as virulent criticism. Today the book reveals what for Henry is a cruel reality: the tragic feeling of powerlessness experienced by the cultured person. Above all he argues for the importance of returning to philosophy in order to analyse the root causes of barbarism in our world.

Viral Economies

Author : Natalie Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 022664894X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Viral Economies written by Natalie Porter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS, zoonotic viruses are killing animals and wreaking havoc on the people living near them. Given this clear correlation between animals and viral infection, why are animals largely invisible in social science accounts of pandemics, and why do they remain marginal in critiques of global public health? In Viral Economies, Natalie Porter draws from long-term research on bird flu in Vietnam to chart the pathways of scientists, NGO workers, state veterinarians, and poultry farmers as they define and address pandemic risks. Porter argues that as global health programs expand their purview to include life and livestock, they weigh the interests of public health against those of commercial agriculture, rural tradition, and scientific innovation. Porter challenges human-centered analyses of pandemics and shows how dynamic and often dangerous human-animal relations take on global significance as poultry and their pathogens travel through global livestock economies and transnational health networks. Viral Economies urges readers to think critically about the ideas, relationships, and practices that produce our everyday commodities, and that shape how we determine the value of life--both human and nonhuman.

The Moving Image

Author : Kishore Valicha
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125016083
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Moving Image written by Kishore Valicha and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first serious film studies in India. A contemporary analysis of the central issues contained in Indian films issues which distinguish this cinema from films of other countries. The book argues that film in India is a genuine cultural expression carrying meaning. The special and valuable insights on Indian cinema that this book offers are enhanced by Dr Valicha s own fascination with films.

The Life-work of Liebig in Experimental and Philosophic Chemistry

Author : August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Life-work of Liebig in Experimental and Philosophic Chemistry written by August Wilhelm von Hofmann and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thoreau's Living Ethics

Author : Philip Cafaro
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336661
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Thoreau's Living Ethics written by Philip Cafaro and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's Living Ethics is the first full, rigorous account of Henry Thoreau's ethical philosophy. Focused on Walden but ranging widely across his writings, the study situates Thoreau within a long tradition of ethical thinking in the West, from the ancients to the Romantics and on to the present day. Philip Cafaro shows Thoreau grappling with important ethical questions that agitated his own society and discusses his value for those seeking to understand contemporary ethical issues. Cafaro's particular interest is in Thoreau's treatment of virtue ethics: the branch of ethics centered on personal and social flourishing. Ranging across the central elements of Thoreau's philosophy—life, virtue, economy, solitude and society, nature, and politics—Cafaro shows Thoreau developing a comprehensive virtue ethics, less based in ancient philosophy than many recent efforts and more grounded in modern life and experience. He presents Thoreau's evolutionary, experimental ethics as superior to the more static foundational efforts of current virtue ethicists. Another main focus is Thoreau's environmental ethics. The book shows Thoreau not only anticipating recent arguments for wild nature's intrinsic value, but also demonstrating how a personal connection to nature furthers self-development, moral character, knowledge, and creativity. Thoreau's life and writings, argues Cafaro, present a positive, life-affirming environmental ethics, combining respect and restraint with an appreciation for human possibilities for flourishing within nature.

The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema

Author : Mark C. Glassy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608229
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema written by Mark C. Glassy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction films of the 1930s and 1940s were often set in dark laboratories that had strange looking glass containers with bubbling fluids and mad scientists conducting glandular and hormonal experiments. In the 1950s, films were more focused on radiation induced mutations. The 1960s and 1970s brought more sophisticated biological sciences to the movies and focused on such relatively new concepts as immunology, cyrobiology, and biochemistry. In the 1980s and 1990s, the focus of science fiction films has been DNA. This work of film criticism relates 71 science fiction films to the biological sciences. The author covers cell biology, pharmacology, endocrinology, hematology, and entomology, to name just a few topics. An analysis of each film includes a brief plot synopsis, the author’s favorite quotations, the biological principles involved, the accuracy of the laboratory, and correct and incorrect biological information. In his analyses, the author sets out what would be required to achieve in real life the results seen in the movies and whether these experiments or events could actually happen.

Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts

Author : Melanie Frappier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136286004
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts written by Melanie Frappier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments.