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  • The Organism Is a Theory

    Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI

    by Giuseppe Longo, Adam Nocek ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    A bold reimagining of life that bridges science, philosophy, cybernetics, and the complexities of biological existenceThe Organism Is a Theory is an intriguing synthesis of decades of interdisciplinary research by eminent mathematician and biological scientist Giuseppe Longo. A unique collaboration between Longo and philosopher of technology Adam Nocek, the volume confronts foundational issues in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Lure of Whitehead

    Edited by Nicholas Gaskill, A. J. Nocek ...
    Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whitehead’s thought, extending it through inquiries into the nature of life, the problem of consciousness, ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Propositions in the Making

    Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory

    by James Burton, Brianne Donaldson, Diego Gil, Matthew Goulish, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Andrew Murphie, AJ Nocek, Tim Murphy, Susanne Valerie Granzer ...
    Series series Contemporary Whitehead Studies
    How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead’s philosophy, with particular attention to his understanding of propositions.Edited by Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, and Andrew M. Davis, Propositions in the Making articulates the newest reaches of Whiteheadian propositions for a postmodern world. It ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Design in Crisis

    New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices

    Edited by Tony Fry, Adam Nocek ...
    This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies.The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity

    Edited by Cary Wolfe, Adam Nocek ...
    Series series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    This book is based upon the collaborative efforts of the Ontogenetics Process Group (OPG) – an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, multi-national research group that began meeting in 2017 to explore new and innovative ways of thinking the problem of complexity in living, physical, and social systems outside the algorithmic models that have dominated paradigms of complexity to date.For all the ... Read more

    $74.19 CAD

  • Molecular Capture

    The Animation of Biology

    by Adam Nocek ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciencesWho would have thought that computer animation technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century would become essential visualization tools in today’s biosciences? This book is the first to examine this phenomenon. Molecular Capture reveals how popular media consumption and biological ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Big Picture

    On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

    by Sean Carroll ...
    The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it.“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times“Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science“A tour de force.”—SalonAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of t... ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Designs for the Pluriverse

    Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Posthuman Knowledge

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our knowledge of living systems and of their genetic and algorithmic codes coupled with the global expansion of a knowledge-intensive ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • God's Undertaker

    Has Science Buried God?

    by Professor John C Lennox ...
    If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science.In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Design as Politics

    by Tony Fry ...
    Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future.Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD