Bruce Clarke

Gaian Systems

Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory"--

Produktdetails

• Posthumanities
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 142mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781517909123
• ISBN-10: 1517909120
• Artikelnr.: 60000207

Autorenporträt

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He is the author or editor of ten books, among them Neocybernetics and Narrative (Minnesota, 2014) and Posthuman Metamorphosis.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: An Epistemological Transition
Part I. Gaia Discourse
1. A Paradigm Shift
2. Thinkers of Gaia
3. Neocybernetics of Gaia
Part II. The Systems Counterculture
4. The Whole Earth Network
5. The Lindisfarne Connection
6. Margulis and Autopoiesis
Part III. Gaian Enquiries
7. The Planetary Imaginary
8. Planetary Immunity
9. Astrobiology and the Anthropocene
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index