Self-Generation

Helmut Müller-Sievers

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• The genealogy and function of epigenesis--the theory that organisms generate themselves under the guidance of a formative drive--provides a unique mea... Lees meer

Bootstrapping

Thierry Bardini

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking wo... Lees meer

Social Systems

Niklas Luhmann

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• A major challenge confronting contemporary theory is to overcome its fixation on written narratives and the culture of print. In this presentation of ... Lees meer

Experimenting in Tongues

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• References to language abound in the sciences: biologists speak about "reading" the human genome and "rewriting" the genetic code, computer scientists... Lees meer

Mathematics as Sign

Brian Rotman

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• Two features of mathematics stand out: its menagerie of seemingly eternal objects (numbers, spaces, patterns, functions, categories, morphisms, graphs... Lees meer

Bootstrapping

Thierry Bardini

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking wo... Lees meer

Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

Friedrich A Kittler

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel w... Lees meer

Observations on Modernity

Niklas Luhmann

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is ... Lees meer

Fetal Positions

Karen Newman

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• This book uses 103 illustrations from the 16th century onward and the history of obstetrical and embryological knowledge to argue that modes of visual... Lees meer

Geometrical Landscapes

Amir R Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• This challenging book argues that a new way of speaking of mathematics and describing it emerged at the end of the sixteenth century. Leading mathemat... Lees meer

The Protoliterary

K Ludwig Pfeiffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Cen... Lees meer

Science on Stage

Stephen Hilgartner

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate the s... Lees meer

Instituting Science

Timothy Lenoir

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• Early practitioners of the social studies of science turned their attention away from questions of institutionalization, which had tended to emphasize... Lees meer

Experimenting in Tongues

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• References to language abound in the sciences: biologists speak about "reading" the human genome and "rewriting" the genetic code, computer scientists... Lees meer

Fetal Positions

Karen Newman

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• This book uses 103 illustrations from the 16th century onward and the history of obstetrical and embryological knowledge to argue that modes of visual... Lees meer

Ethical Know-How

Francisco J Varela

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• How can science be brought to connect with experience? This book addresses two of the most challenging problems facing contemporary neurobiology and c... Lees meer

Dance Pathologies

Felicia McCarren

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcenden... Lees meer

On Beyond Living

Richard Doyle

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent ... Lees meer

Cinematograph of Words

Flora Süssekind

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. The ... Lees meer

The Technical Imagination

Beatriz Sarlo

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• In what Beatriz Sarlo calls six "episodes," ranging from the proto-science fiction of Horacio Quiroga and the apocalyptic urban surrealism of Roberto ... Lees meer

Inscribing Science

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• Metaphors of inscription and writing figure prominently in all levels of discourse in and about science. The description of nature as a book written i... Lees meer

Picture Control

Nicolas Rasmussen

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• Two major questions motivate this study: How do new devices get taken up as experimental systems by scientists? How does the adoption of new instrumen... Lees meer

Models

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• Now that '3-D models' are so often digital displays on flat screens, it is timely to look back at the solid models that were once the third dimension ... Lees meer

Naturalizing Phenomenology

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• This ambitious work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of... Lees meer