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  • ...as already fully human, indeed as already infants, and hence as deserving of the rights and privileges accorded the infant. ([http://www.livingbooksabou ...Medico-Christian Embryology, or the Unborn Child (From the Earliest Period of its Existence)] ...
    13 KB (1,963 words) - 21:03, 27 June 2014
  • ...d a world of ubiquitous, if not always visible, surveillance. Consider for a moment how much daily surveillance people are exposed to that would not hav ..., and their price decreasing, the trend is likely to continue, with little of our daily lives not being recorded by some video device.<br><br> ...
    43 KB (6,973 words) - 19:55, 25 October 2011
  • = Claire Colebrook /<br> '''Introduction: Extinction. Framing the End of the Species''' = ...t of the story of life processes. Claims such as the following are typical of what has come to be known as ‘literary Darwinism’:<br><br> ...
    66 KB (10,629 words) - 17:59, 3 October 2012
  • = '''White Noise: On the Limits of Openness (Living Book Mix)''' = ...al, functional terms. This shift has significant consequences for our idea of knowledge. Indeed, for Lyotard: <br><br> ...
    66 KB (10,075 words) - 11:20, 10 June 2014
  • ...to leave science to the experts, not to be mystified by it, but to demand a sophisticated scientific understanding in which everyone can share.' (Lewon ...another) is based on the iconicity of metaphor (and the primary ‘Universe of Firstness’ – see below). As I write in my own contribution to this Living B ...
    56 KB (8,435 words) - 21:29, 29 October 2011
  • === Introduction: Energy as a Nomadic Concept === ...y round? Does their meaning stay the same? Do they help to unify the field of the sciences? Or do they rather complicate the picture?)''</blockquote> ...
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  • ...motional fulfillment. A brand is uniquely situated to achieve this because it can tap into the aspirational drives which underlie human motivation.” ...ic inadequacies of this approach—its inability to handle the crucial roles of automatic and emotional processing. ...
    21 KB (3,097 words) - 14:08, 29 September 2011
  • ...rescribe back onto other actors, but which also remains within the purview of humans to seek to understand. As Kitchin argues:<br><br> ...t that we are entering a new phase of ‘everyware’ (Greenfield, 2006); that is, computational power will be distributed and available at any point on the ...
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