Co Corporeality Of Humans Machines Microbes

Author : Barbara Imhof
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035625883
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes written by Barbara Imhof and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and interaction between humans and microbial life. Based on design-led research, this book explores how we can develop environments for a multispecies world. It focuses on the agency of both human and nonhuman actors. New sensor tools enable observation of and interaction between these different actors. Co-Corporeality links microbiology to material science, artificial intelligence, and architecture. The focus is on how microbial activity can create new protoarchitectural materials, how living systems can be integrated into architecture and cooperate along different time scales.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912729180
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book With Microbes written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without microbes, no other forms of life would be possible. But what does it mean to be with microbes? In this book, 24 contributors attune to microbes and describe their multiple relationships with humans and others.

Author : Vasu D. Appanna
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789811356698
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Human Microbes - The Power Within written by Vasu D. Appanna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique perspective on the invisible organ, a body part that has been visualized only recently. It guides the readers into the world of the microbial constituents that make humans the way they are. The vitamins they produce, the smell they generate, the signals they create, and the molecular guards they elaborate are some of the benefits they bestow on humans. After introducing the notion as to why microbes are an integral component in the development of humans, the book examines the genesis of the microbiome and describes how the resident bacteria work in partnership with the skin, digestive tract, sexual organs, mouth and lungs to execute vital physiological functions. It then discusses the diseases that are triggered by the disruption of the harmonious relationships amongst these diverse systems and provides microbial cures to ailments such as obesity and digestive complications. Finally, the book focuses on the future when the workings of the human microbes will be fully unravelled. Societal changes in health education, the establishment of the microbiome bank, the fight against hunger, space travel, designer traits and enhanced security are explained. Each chapter is accompanied by captivating illustrations and ends with a visual summary. Dr. Appanna has been researching for over 30 years on various aspects of microbial and human cellular systems. He is a professor of biochemistry and has also served as Department Chair and Dean of the Faculty at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. The book is aimed at readers enrolled in medical, chiropractic, nursing, pharmacy, and health science programs. Practicing health-care professionals and continuing education learners will also find the content beneficial.

Author : Diane Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350314528
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Introducing Gender and Women's Studies written by Diane Richardson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely publication confirms the continuing importance and relevance of gender and women's studies. The fifth edition of this best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive overview of key issues and debates in gender and feminist theory. With fully revised chapters written by specialists across a range of core topics including sexuality, race, bodies, family, masculinity, methodologies and migration, this clearly written but rigorous collection examines contemporary debates and provides helpful examples and questions to consider. Furthermore, it continues to reflect the shift from women's studies to gender studies, incorporating coverage of masculinity throughout, as well as discussing live debates such as around global activism, transgender rights and the environment. It continues to be an indispensable resource for students, academics and anyone interested in this lively field. New to this Edition: - A new chapter on gender and migration - Expanded discussion of transgender rights as well as masculinity studies - Brings seven new contributors to the collection; with newly authored chapters on Gender and Environment, Gender and Education, Gender and Sexuality and Gender and Race - Fully revised and updated with new material and new case examples - Greater attention to intersectional approaches and international reach

Author : Justyna Stępień
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579557
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Posthuman and Nonhuman Entanglements in Contemporary Art and the Body written by Justyna Stępień and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings. Drawing on critical posthumanist and new materialist thought, in this book, nonhumans become subjects of ethics, aesthetics, and politics that produce equally relevant meanings. Designed to include multiple artistic perspectives and forms of expression, which range from sculptures to bio-art and performative practices, the book argues that we are entangled with other organisms around us not only by our socio-cultural connections but predominately by the transformations that we all undergo with the world’s materiality. Thus, the artistic works discussed do not merely reflect the world but transform it, offering solutions for practising alternative ethical values and acting better with and for the world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural studies, media studies, body studies, performance studies, animal studies, and environmental studies.

Author : Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec
Publisher : V&R unipress
ISBN 13 : 3737014701
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book TRANSPOSITIONES 2022 Vol. 1, Issue 2: Intraconnectedness and World-making: Technologies, Bodies, Matters written by Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec and published by V&R unipress. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1978 book Nelson Goodman coined the term “worldmaking.” The new-materialistic approach to the potential for meaning of extra-human materiality and its multidimensional entanglements and the intraconnectedness shifts the concept of world-making into new perspectives of interpretation. In the categories of Karen Barad’s “agential realism,” it applies to practices of knowledge production and to a diffractive (re)configuration of the world’s matter and its meaning. “World-making” gains a further specific expression in Donna Haraway’s concept of “worlding” which shows the intraactive entanglement of matter, substance, meaning, storytelling and thinking on the fundamental level of the polysemic linguistic tissue itself.

Author : Kevin M. Cahill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523434
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Finite but Unbounded: New Approaches in Philosophical Anthropology written by Kevin M. Cahill and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-leading anthropologists and philosophers pursue the perplexing question fundamental to both disciplines: What is it to think of ourselves as human? A common theme is the open-ended and context-dependent nature of our notion of the human, one upshot of which is that perplexities over that notion can only be dealt with in a piecemeal fashion, and in relation to concrete real-life circumstances. Philosophical anthropology, understood as the exploration of such perplexities, will thus be both recognizably philosophical in character and inextricably bound up with anthropological fieldwork. The volume is put together accordingly: Precisely by mixing ostensibly philosophical papers with papers that engage in close anthropological study of concrete issues, it is meant to reflect the vital tie between these two aspects of the overall philosophical-anthropological enterprise. The collection will be of great interest to philosophers and anthropologists alike, and essential reading for anyone interested in the interconnections between the two disciplines.

Author : Stacy Alaimo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253004837
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Bodily Natures written by Stacy Alaimo and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on feminist theory, environmental studies, and the sciences, Stacy Alaimo focuses on trans-corporeality, or movement across bodies and nature, which has profoundly altered our sense of self. By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the human body to the environment.

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 078674703X
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Out Of Control written by Kevin Kelly and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

Author : Barbara Imhof
Publisher : Birkhaüser
ISBN 13 : 9783035609202
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Built to Grow written by Barbara Imhof and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built to Grow investigates patterns of growth and dynamics in nature with the aim of creating a new "living architecture" that can be applied to architectonic designs. It examines biological processes to identify basic principles of growth and translate them into exemplary architectonic ideas and visions. The project brings together experts from the fields of architecture, biology, art, mechatronics, and robotics.