Sophia Roosth: 2 books
Synthetic
How Life Got Made
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology techniques,...
Sounding the Limits of Life
Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
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...