Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture (FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis) - Softcover

 
9780415070140: Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture (FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415070147 ISBN 13: 9780415070140
Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.
Futurenatural brings together leading 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 on biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics. Increasingly, scientific theories and models have been taken up as cultural metaphors that have material effects in transforming 'ways of seeing' and 'structures of feeling'.
The book addresses the issue of whether political and cultural debates about the body and 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. What cultural forms may be produced when new knowledges challenge and undermine traditional ways of conceiving the 'natural'.

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About the Author

Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Melinda Mash, Tim Putnam, George Robertson, Lisa Tickner

From the Back Cover

FutureNatural brings together Leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature'--it past, present and future. Contributors discuss the impact on our daily life of recent developments in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics, and how scientific theories and models have been taken up as cultural metaphors that have material effects in transforming ways so of seeing and structures of feeling.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415070147
ISBN 13 
9780415070140
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
328
Editor
Bird Jon, Curtis Barry, Mash Melinda, Putnam Tim, Robertson George, Tickner Lisa

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9780415070133: Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture (FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis)

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ISBN 10:  0415070139 ISBN 13:  9780415070133
Publisher: Routledge, 1996
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