Stefan Helmreich: 2 books
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...
by Sherry Turkle, William J. Clancey, Stefan Helmreich
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
How the simulation and visualization technologies so pervasive in science, engineering, and design have changed our way of seeing the world.
Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents,...