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Magic, science, religion /
"Magic, Science, Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden : Boston :
Brill ; Rodopi,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Experimental practices: technoscience, literature, art, philosophy ;
Volume 2 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Magic Science Religion
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About this Book
- 1 Introduction
- 1 All or Nothing?
- 2 Kindness
- ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma
- ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies
- ASIDE: Our Gods
- 3 Cruelty
- ASIDE: Ghostly Causality
- ASIDE: Durable Cruelties
- 4 Beginning, Again
- ASIDE: Chaos Invoked
- 5 The Freedom Not to Choose
- ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes
- ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion
- ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer's Will
- ASIDE: Shapely Sentences
- ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version
- 2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell
- 1 Horror Movie Reboot
- 2 Interpositivity
- ASIDE: Interpositivity
- 3 Becoming a System
- 4 Creatures of Light
- ASIDE: Transformative for Whom?
- ASIDE: Plant Sorcery
- 5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires
- ASIDE: iii
- ASIDE: Co-evolution
- 6 Leveled
- ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late
- ASIDE: Up Around the Bend
- 7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things
- 8 Dynamism
- ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity
- 9 Magic, but No Black Boxes
- ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version
- 10 Wildness
- ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory
- 3 Magic by Example
- 1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell)
- 2 Placebo Magic
- ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic
- ASIDE: Following the Scent
- 3 Mirror Magic
- 4 Biting Game
- 5 Dog Whisperer
- 6 Conclusion
- 4 Future Perfect
- 1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act
- 2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting
- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer
- 3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines
- ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church
- ASIDE: Falling Off a Log
- 4 Magical Militarism
- 5 Four Asides
- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Time Travel 101
- ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence.
- ASIDE: A Somewhat Mysticizing Account of Rationalist Nonviolence
- ASIDE: Four Scholars
- 5 What is Religion?
- 1 A Fuzzy Set
- 2 Magic, Science, and Religion Coevolve
- 3 Restoring the Chaos
- 4 Rain Dance
- ASIDE: From Flow
- 5 Providence, via Vico
- ASIDE: Systematizers Systematized
- 6 God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama)
- 1 Salience to Sentience
- 2 Primordial Systemhood Membership Narratives
- ASIDE: Law and Order
- 3 The Myth of the Acquisition-of-Consciousness Moment
- 4 Use of the Terms I and We
- 5 Cis-Systems → Trans-Systems
- 6 First Caveat: Characters
- 7 Plant and Animal Intelligence
- 8 Learning and Evolution from a Systems Perspective
- 9 Second Caveat: Plot
- 10 Especially Informative Postinfundibular Amphioxus Hypothalamus Neuropile
- 11 The Holy Grail
- ASIDE: Neuro-X
- 12 Teamlikeness
- ASIDE: Play and Teamlikeness
- ASIDE: Three-Ring Circuits
- 13 Conclusion
- 7 Blake Magic
- 1 Famous in Heaven
- ASIDE: No Success Like Failure
- 2 Blake Magic
- 3 Auguries
- ASIDE: Prophecies
- 4 Angel Kings
- 5 Magic in the Current Conjuncture
- 6 Five Asides
- ASIDE: An Elegant Pose
- ASIDE: Ritual Retraction
- ASIDE: Obscurity
- ASIDE: Butterfly Tornado
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index.