Sounding the Limits of Life(1st Edition) Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology) by StefanHelmreich, Michele Friedner, Sophia Roosth Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2015 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-16481-6, ISBN: 0-691-16481-9
" 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 ..."
Alien Ocean(1st Edition) Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by StefanHelmreich Paperback, 422 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25062-8, ISBN: 0-520-25062-1
""Alien Ocean" immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in Monterey Bay, Hawai'i, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Sargasso Sea and at undersea volcanoes in the eastern Pacific, Stefan Helmreich charts how revolutions in genomics, b ..."
"Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of “atoms to bits”―that human affairs would be increasingly untethered from the material world. And yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the material world behind. In Being Material, artists and techno ..."
A Book of Waves (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) by StefanHelmreich Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2023 by Duke University Press, North Carolina ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-2041-7, ISBN: 1-4780-2041-5
"In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet."
Silicon Second Nature(Updated) Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, With a New Preface by StefanHelmreich Paperback, 330 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20800-1, ISBN: 0-520-20800-5
""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 Institu ..."
Silicon Second Nature(1st Edition) Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World by StefanHelmreich Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-20799-8, ISBN: 0-520-20799-8
"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 we ..."
"Electronic composer and sound artist Florian Hecker (born 1975) has made inventive use of contrasting and conflicting auditory illusions or chimeras--perhaps most famously on his recent acclaimed Mego album Acid in the Style of David Tudor, which brilliantly and bizarrely merged the two soundworlds of acid house and avant-garde electronics. Auditory chimeras have been previously explored in electroacoustic music, in particular by Alvin ..."
"Michelle Murphy, “Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations,” Cultural
Anthropology 32, no. ... do not start and stop where industrial chemistry and the
regulatory state think they do” comes close to Murphy's work without being a
direct quote ..."
"Christen Raunkiær's technical meaning of “life-form” is still in strong use in
botany—and employed a good deal in invasion biology to fix on the adaptational
reproductive characteristics of invasive, or “alien,” species, keeping alive the
biogeographic meaning pioneered by Humboldt. The OED credits Raunkiær for
bringing “life-form” into common usage, despite the fact that Lebensform and “life-
form” had been in use for about one hun ..."
Alien Ocean(1st Edition) Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (Hardback) by StefanHelmreich Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25061-1, ISBN: 0-520-25061-3
Alien Ocean Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas by StefanHelmreich 422 Pages, Published 2009 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94260-8, ISBN: 0-520-94260-4
"The salt marshes of Sippewissett, Massachusetts, a few miles north of Woods
Hole's Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), ... eukaryotic cells evolved through
incorporating once free-living prokaryotes — like the oxygen-respiring bacteria
that became ... Margulis has been working for forty years to investigate the
possibility that structures such as the tiny hairs on the ... to detect signs of
emergent symbiogenesis, evidence that the ..."
"The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "art ..."
"The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "art ..."
"The essays in "Relative Values" draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors--a group of internationally recognized scholars--examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have ..."
"The essays in "Relative Values" draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory. Through a combination of vivid case studies and trenchant theoretical essays, the contributors--a group of internationally recognized scholars--examine both the history of kinship theory and its future, at once raising questions that have ..."
Silicon Second Nature Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated With a New Preface by StefanHelmreich 330 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91877-1, ISBN: 0-520-91877-0
"Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated With a New Preface Stefan
Helmreich. Goldberg, David, 138, 140, 146-47, 153-54, 186, 272n39 Golem (clay
creature), 5 Goodwin, Brian, 215-16, 225, 229-30, 232-33 Gore, Al, 163 Gorman,
... 83, 262n6 Gremillion, Valerie, 46 Guattari, Felix, 235 Gusterson, Hugh, 122,
181, 239 Habermas, Jiirgen, 1 7 Hacker culture, 51 Halberstam, Judith, 247
Haraway, ..."
Silicon Second Nature Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World by StefanHelmreich Published 1998 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-24532-4, ISBN: 0-585-24532-0