[Commlist] New Book: LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry

Intellect is pleased to share that /LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/life>/, edited by Jeremy Swartz and 
Janet Wasko, is out in paperback and hardback.
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/LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry/ examines nature, cognition and 
society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries. This 
volume explores how information and communication are instrumental in 
and for living systems, acknowledging an integrative account of media as 
environments and technologies. The aim of the collection is a fuller and 
richer account of everyday life through a spectrum of insights from 
internationally known scholars of the natural sciences (physical and 
life sciences), social sciences and the arts.

This is the second volume in the MEDIA 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/media-transdisciplinary> • LIFE 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/life> • UNIVERSE Trilogy.


*_Table of Contents
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*Preface to a Trilogy
Introduction

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*Genealogy*
*1.* ‘Life, Nature and Systems’ – /Fritjof Capra/
*2. *‘What is Life?’ – /Mark A. Bedau/
*3.* ‘Why Life Cannot Be Defined’ – /Carol E. Cleland/

*Information and Ecologies
4. *‘Propagating Organization: An Enquiry’ – /Stuart Kauffman, Robert K. 
Logan, Robert Este, Randy Goebel, David Hobill and Ilya Shmulevich/
*5.* ‘Friends, Neighbours and Enemies: An Overview of the Communal and 
Social Biology of Plants’ – /Roza D. Bilas, Amanda Bretman and Tom Bennett/
*6. *‘The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome’ – /Nicolae Morar 
and Brendan J. M. Bohannan/

*Enactions and Values
*7. ‘From Life to Mind’ – /Mark L. Johnson
/8. ‘Metabolism and Drift’ – /Thomas Nail
/9. ‘From ALife to No Life: On Mediatic Contexts of Life and Death’ – 
/Jussi Parikka/

*Ecomediations and Education
10.* ‘Media and Information Literacies for a Living World: Engaging with 
a Cyberist Era’ – /Divina Frau-Meigs/
*11.* ‘Journalistic Learning and Intentional Teaching with Technologies: 
STEM and Rural Communities’ – /Ed Madison/
*12.* ‘Dirtying Ecocinema Studies’ – /Salma Monani and Stephen Rust

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*Syntheses and Biodesigning
13.* ‘System Dynamics, Machine Learning and Structural Validation’ – 
/William Schoenberg and Jeremy Swartz/
*14.* ‘Life from the Edge of Synthetic Biology’ – /Pier Luigi Luisi
/*15. *‘Templating Life: DNA as Nature’s Hard Drive, Version 2.0’ – /Mél 
Hogan and Tessa J. Brown
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*Artful Lives and Metaliving
16. *‘Aqueous Mediums, Urban Architectures, Anadromous Being’ – /Brook 
Muller
/*17.* ‘Satoyama and the Art of Rural Regeneration’ – /Diane Durston
/*18. *‘Metaliving’ – /Jeremy Swartz/

*Appendix:* Exhibition • Experience • Nature
*Notes on Contributors
Index*


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/life <http://www.intellectbooks.com/life>


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