Bird / Curtis / Mash Futurenatural

Nature, Science, Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-1-134-91305-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis

We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.
Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature' - its past, present and future. Contributors discuss the impact on our daily life of recent developments on biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics. Increasingly, scientific theories and models have been taken up as cultural metaphors that have material effects in transforming 'ways of seeing' and 'structures of feeling'.
The book addresses the issue of whether political and cultural debates about the body and environment can take place without reference to 'nature' or the 'natural'. This collection considers how we might 'think' a future developing from emergent scientific theories and discourses. What cultural forms may be produced when new knowledges challenge and undermine traditional ways of conceiving the 'natural'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bird, Jon

Curtis, Barry

Mash, Melinda

Putnam, Tim

Robertson, George

Tickner, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rosalind Coward, Sean Cubitt, Karl Figlio, Les Levidow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Trinh T.Minh-ha, Nelly Oudshoorn, Mark Poster, Sadie Plant, Andrew Ross, Kate Soper, Tom Wilkie, Alexander Wilson, Lola Young, Robert Young, Slavoj Zizek