Culturing Life
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Culturing Life
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Author : Hannah Landecker
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-30
Culturing Life written by Hannah Landecker and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with Science categories.
How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions of the human condition as individuality, hybridity, and even immortality and asks what it means that we can remove cells from the spatial and temporal constraints of the body and "harness them to human intention." Rather than focus on single discrete biotechnologies and their stories--embryonic stem cells, transgenic animals--Landecker documents and explores the wider genre of technique behind artificial forms of cellular life. She traces the lab culture common to all those stories, asking where it came from and what it means to our understanding of life, technology, and the increasingly blurry boundary between them. The technical culture of cells has transformed the meaning of the term "biological," as life becomes disembodied, distributed widely in space and time. Once we have a more specific grasp on how altering biology changes what it is to be biological, Landecker argues, we may be more prepared to answer the social questions that biotechnology is raising.
Culturing Life
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Author : Hannah Landecker
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-30
Culturing Life written by Hannah Landecker and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with Science categories.
How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions of the human condition as individuality, hybridity, and even immortality and asks what it means that we can remove cells from the spatial and temporal constraints of the body and "harness them to human intention." Rather than focus on single discrete biotechnologies and their stories--embryonic stem cells, transgenic animals--Landecker documents and explores the wider genre of technique behind artificial forms of cellular life. She traces the lab culture common to all those stories, asking where it came from and what it means to our understanding of life, technology, and the increasingly blurry boundary between them. The technical culture of cells has transformed the meaning of the term "biological," as life becomes disembodied, distributed widely in space and time. Once we have a more specific grasp on how altering biology changes what it is to be biological, Landecker argues, we may be more prepared to answer the social questions that biotechnology is raising.
Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping
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Author : Chua Beng Huat
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping written by Chua Beng Huat and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Social Science categories.
One of the cliches that Singaporeans hold most dear is that their lives are a pursuit of the five c's: cash, cars, condominiums, credit cards, and club memberships. Over the last thirty years, Singaporeans have become accustomed to ever-increasing levels of consumption. Singapore's PAP government has 'delivered the goods', and this is recognized as a prime reason for its legitimacy. But what is the culture of this consumption? What does shopping say about Singapore society?
Culture And Everyday Life
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Author : David Inglis
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Culture And Everyday Life written by David Inglis and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Culture categories.
This lively and accessible new book reconsiders the different views as to what 'culture' is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and non-human) world.
Silicon Second Nature
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Author : Stefan Helmreich
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-08-29
Silicon Second Nature written by Stefan Helmreich and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-29 with Computers categories.
Looks at the emerging field of artificial life - the product of imagination - a mix of biology, mythology and technology.
The Simple Life
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Author : David E. Shi
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2007
The Simple Life written by David E. Shi and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
Looking across more than three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, Shi introduces a rich cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Scott and Helen Nearing, and Jimmy Carter.
Culture And Everyday Life
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Author : Andy Bennett
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2005-07-21
Culture And Everyday Life written by Andy Bennett and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-21 with Social Science categories.
′Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable′ - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how academic thinking about mass culture has changed, from critical accounts of early mass cultural theorists to radical postmodernist critiques of mass cultural accounts and to ′the cultural turn′, which explored how various social identities are culturally constructed. Following this are themed chapters that cover a particular aspect of late modern culture, such as media, music, fashion, tourism and counter-cultural ideologies and movements. In each case a comprehensive literature review is provided and its theoretical and empirical relevance to our understanding of the relationship between culture and everyday life in contemporary society is explained. Lucid, meticulous and illustrated with a host of examples, this is a superb text for teaching and research in the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies.
Cell Phone Culture
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Author : Gerard Goggin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006
Cell Phone Culture written by Gerard Goggin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Computers categories.
Comprehensive introduction to cell phone culture and theory.
Culture Rhetoric And The Vicissitudes Of Life
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Author : Michael Carrithers
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Culture Rhetoric And The Vicissitudes Of Life written by Michael Carrithers and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume's wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.
Popular Culture As Everyday Life
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Author : Dennis D. Waskul
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Popular Culture As Everyday Life written by Dennis D. Waskul and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with Social Science categories.
In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the many ways that popular culture intersects with mundane experiences of everyday life. Most essays are written in a reflexive ethnographic style, primarily through observation and personal narrative, to convey insights at an intimate level that will resonate with most readers. Some of the topics are so mundane they are legitimately universal (sleeping, getting dressed, going to the bathroom, etc.), others are common enough that most readers will directly identify in some way (watching television, using mobile phones, playing video games, etc.), while some topics will appeal more-or-less depending on a reader’s gender, interests, and recreational pastimes (putting on makeup, watching the Super Bowl, homemaking, etc.). This book will remind readers of their own similar experiences, provide opportunities to reflect upon them in new ways, as well as compare and contrast how experiences relayed in these pages relate to lived experiences. The essays will easily translate into rich and lively classroom discussions that shed new light on a familiar, taken-for-granted everyday life—both individually and collectively. At the beginning of the book, the authors have provided a grid that shows the topics and themes that each article touches on. This book is for popular culture classes, and will also be an asset in courses on the sociology of everyday life, ethnography, and social psychology.