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Between Science and Literature: AN INTRODUCTION TO AUTOPOETICS
Ira Livingston
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Description for Between Science and Literature: AN INTRODUCTION TO AUTOPOETICS
paperback. Introduces the fundamentals of cultural and literary theory. This title constructs an alternate framework in which complex, self-organizing processes occur at various scales, cutting across traditional divisions between words and things, culture and nature. Translator(s): Hayles, N. Katherine. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
Between Literature and Science follows through to its emerging 21st-century future the central insight of 20th-century literary and cultural theory: that language and culture, along with their subsystems and artifacts, are self-referential systems. The book explores the workings of self-reference (and the related performativity) in linguistic utterances and assorted texts, through examples of the more open social-discursive systems of post-structuralism and cultural studies, and into the sciences, where complex systems organized by recursive self-reference are now being embraced as an emergent paradigm. This paradigmatic convergence between the humanities and sciences is autopoetics (adapting biologist Hubert Maturana’s term for “self-making” systems), ... Read more
Between Literature and Science follows through to its emerging 21st-century future the central insight of 20th-century literary and cultural theory: that language and culture, along with their subsystems and artifacts, are self-referential systems. The book explores the workings of self-reference (and the related performativity) in linguistic utterances and assorted texts, through examples of the more open social-discursive systems of post-structuralism and cultural studies, and into the sciences, where complex systems organized by recursive self-reference are now being embraced as an emergent paradigm. This paradigmatic convergence between the humanities and sciences is autopoetics (adapting biologist Hubert Maturana’s term for “self-making” systems), ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252072543
SKU
V9780252072543
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About Ira Livingston
Ira Livingston is associate professor of English and com- parative literary and cultural studies at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity.N. Katherine Hayles, John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary ... Read more
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