FutureNatural : nature, science, culture /
edited by George Robertson [and others].
- x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Futures, new perspectives for cultural analysis .
- Futures, new perspectives for cultural analysis. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Look who's talking -- The future is a risky business -- Nature/'nature' -- The production of nature -- Simulating mother nature, industrializing agriculture -- Knowing, loving and hating nature: a psychoanalytic view -- Nature's r: a musical swoon -- The biological gaze -- A natural order of things? Reproductive sciences and the politics of othering -- Genes 'R' Us -- Narratives of artificial life -- Posthuman unbounded: artificial evolution and high-tech subcultures -- Postmodern virtualities -- The virtual complexity of culture -- Art and science in Chaos: contesting readings of scientific visualization -- Supernatural futures: theses on digital aesthetics -- Feminist figuration and the question of origin -- Lacan with quantum physics -- An interview with Satan -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
"FutureNatural brings together 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 in biotechnologies, electronic media and ecological politics, addressing the issue of whether political and cultural debates about the body and the 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."--Publisher description.