{"product_id":"sounding-the-limits-of-life-9780691164816","title":"Sounding the Limits of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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 abstract, material and formal, scientific and social.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the 2016 Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts\"\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection is extremely impressive. The notes and bibliography read like a veritable state-of-the-art of the field; the author has read and imbibed everything and everyone and is in firm command of his disciplinary landscape. Helmreich has been a leader among anthropologists in applying to science a new kind of methodologically sophisticated ethnography.\"\u003cb\u003e---Oren Harman, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations vii  Sounding Life, Water, Sound ix  CHAPTER 1 What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies 1  CHAPTER 2 Life Forms: A Keyword Entry (with Sophia Roosth) 19  CHAPTER 3 An Archaeology of Artificial Life, Underwater 35  CHAPTER 4 Cetology Now: Formatting the Twenty-First-Century Whale 44  CHAPTER 5 How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839-2010 48  CHAPTER 6 Homo microbis: Species, Race, Sex, and the Human Microbiome 62  CHAPTER 7 The Signature of Life: Designing the Astrobiological Imagination 73  CHAPTER 8 Nature\/Culture\/Seawater: Theory Machines, Anthropology, Oceanization 94  CHAPTER 9 Time and the Tsunami: Indian Ocean, 2004 106  CHAPTER 10 From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures 116  CHAPTER 11 Underwater Music: Tuning Composition to the Sounds of Science 137  CHAPTER 12 Seashell Sound 155  CHAPTER 13 Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies (with Michele Friedner) 164  CHAPTER 14 Chimeric Sensing 173  Life, Water, Sound Resounding 183  Acknowledgments 189  Notes 195  Index 283","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403813069143,"sku":"9780691164816","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691164816.jpg?v=1730484621","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sounding-the-limits-of-life-9780691164816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}