Artificial Life

by Sarah Whatmore and Nigel Thrift

Book Overview

New developments in life science and information science invite rigorous inquiries into what we mean by - and ascribe to - 'life'. This text provides a summary of the key technical and legal developments and an account of why these developments are so unsettling to established categories like 'human', 'technology', and 'nature'. In five short chapters - that discuss spaces of life; theories of life; the industrialization of life; spaces of property;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412918537
• ISBN13: 9781412918534
• Release Date: February 2051
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 160 Pages