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Sounding the Limits of Life

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Sounding the Limits of Life

By Stefan Helmreich

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About the book

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 point...Show more

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9780691164816

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Princeton University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Sounding the Limits of Life

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Paperback

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