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

Published Princeton University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (325) Series Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology Princeton studies in culture and technology. Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Sounding Life, Water, Sound -- CHAPTER 1 ã€? What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies -- CHAPTER 2 ã€? Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (with Sophia Roosth) -- CHAPTER 3 ã€?â?? An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater -- CHAPTER 4 ã€?â?? Cetology Now: Formatting the Twenty-First-Century Whale -- CHAPTER 5 ã€?â?? How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839â€?2010 -- CHAPTER 6 ã€? Homo microbis: Species, Race, Sex, and the Human Microbiome CHAPTER 7 ã€? The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological ImaginationCHAPTER 8 â?? Nature/Culture/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization -- CHAPTER 9 â?? Time and the Tsunami: Indian Ocean, 2004 -- CHAPTER 10 â?? From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures -- CHAPTER 11 â??â?? Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science -- CHAPTER 12 â??â?? Seashell Sound -- CHAPTER 13 â?? Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (with Michele Friedner) -- CHAPTER 14 â?? Chimeric Sensing Life, Water, Sound ResoundingAcknowledgments -- Notes -- Index Summary 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, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the Analysis Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life Century's End Charles Sanders Peirce Cold War DNA Deaf studies Donna Haraway Earth Florian Hecker Google Earth Google Ocean Hillel Schwartz India Indian Ocean tsunami Peter Galison Raymond Williams Rudolph Bodmer Satish Singh The Culture of the Copy abductive reasoning analog whale anthropology aquatic artificial life form astrobiology auditory chimeras auditory chimerism biological biology chimeric composition chimeric listening cognition computational life sciences computer simulations coral reef science coral reefs culture cyborg sound deaf futurists deafness deductive reasoning digital life forms digital media digital whale ethno-conchology experimental music extraterrestrial intelligence extraterrestrial life feminist science studies fiberglass whale genealogies geological time global ocean global warming globalization hearing human microbiome icons indexes inductive reasoning knowledge life form life limit biologies listening marine biology marine microbiology microbes microbial life migration modernism modernity natural philosophers nature ocean time ocean oceanization oceanographic conference popular science race scientific research scientists sea lions seashell sound seashells seawater sex signification silence simulated whale social theory sonic sound recordings sound studies sound species speech symbols theory machine theory time underwater archaeology underwater music water whale fall whales Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Physical anthropology. Human biology. Life sciences. Ethnology. Anthropology, Physical Biological Science Disciplines physical anthropology. biological sciences. NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals. SCIENCE -- General. Ethnology Human biology Life sciences Physical anthropology Form Electronic book ISBN 140087386X 9781400873869 9780691164809 0691164800

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