TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helmreich,Stefan
TI  - Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
T2  - Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
SN  - 9781400873869
AV  - GN60 .S686 2015
PY  - 2015///
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Physical anthropology
KW  - Human biology
KW  - Life sciences
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Sounding Life, Water, Sound""; ""CHAPTER 1 ã€? What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies""; ""CHAPTER 2 ã€? Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (with Sophia Roosth)""; ""CHAPTER 3 ã€?â?? An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater""; ""CHAPTER 4 ã€?â?? Cetology Now: Formatting the Twenty-First-Century Whale""; ""CHAPTER 5 ã€?â?? How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839â€?2010""; ""CHAPTER 6 ã€? Homo microbis: Species, Race, Sex, and the Human Microbiome""; ""CHAPTER 7 ã€? The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological Imagination""""CHAPTER 8 â?? Nature/Culture/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization""; ""CHAPTER 9 â?? Time and the Tsunami: Indian Ocean, 2004""; ""CHAPTER 10 â?? From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures""; ""CHAPTER 11 â??â?? Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science""; ""CHAPTER 12 â??â?? Seashell Sound""; ""CHAPTER 13 â?? Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (with Michele Friedner)""; ""CHAPTER 14 â?? Chimeric Sensing""; ""Life, Water, Sound Resounding""""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; 2; b
N2  - What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists-biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers-are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, breaching the boundaries between the natural, cultural, and virtual. Through examinations of the
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