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      A Book of Waves

      Stefan Helmreich

      Drawing on ethnographic work among oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry…

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      A Book of Waves

      Stefan Helmreich

      Drawing on ethnographic work among oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry…

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      Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World, Updated With a New Preface

      Stefan Helmreich

      Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs - such as computer viruses - as new forms of life. This book looks at the social and…

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      Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas

      Stefan Helmreich

      Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes.

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      Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

      Stefan Helmreich

      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…

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      Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond

      Stefan Helmreich

      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…

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      What Is Life?: DNA #11

      A collation of first pages of books posing the titular question

      In this book, the collective Biogroop selects and speculates upon a compilation of first pages of publications from 1829…

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      Being Material

      Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.

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      The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto

      A thematic appraisal of Robleto's intertwined fascinations with the human heart and the cosmic boundaries of perception

      The prints, sculptures and films of Houston-based artist Dario Robleto (born 1972) explore…

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      Simulation and Its Discontents

      Sherry Turkle (Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT and Founder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

      How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.

      Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation…

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