Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

by Bird; Jon

• ISBN13: 9780415070133
• ISBN10: 0415070139
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

FutureNaturalbrings together 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 in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics, addressing the issue of whether political and cultural debates about the body and the 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction Look Who's Talking	p. 1
The Nature of 'Nature'	p. 5
The Future is a Risky Business	p. 7
Nature/'Nature'	p. 22
The Production of Nature	p. 35
Simulating Mother Nature, Industrializing Agriculture	p. 55
Knowing, Loving and Hating Nature	p. 72
Nature's R	p. 86
Human Nature	p. 105
The Biological Gaze	p. 107
A Natural Order of Things?	p. 122
Genes 'R' Us	p. 133
Narratives of Artificial Life	p. 146
Posthuman Unbounded	p. 165
Futurenatural	p. 181
Postmodern Virtualities	p. 183
The Virtual Complexity of Culture	p. 203
Art and Science in Chaos	p. 218
Supernatural Futures	p. 237
Feminist Figuration and the Question of Origin	p. 256
Lacan with Quantum Physics	p. 270
A (Forked) Tailpiece	p. 291
An Interview with Satan	p. 293
Index	p. 303
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