Hospitality of the matrix : philosophy, biomedicine, and culture /
The question?Where do we come from?" has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and artists for generations. This book reorients the question of the matrix as a place where everything comes from (chora, womb, incubator) by recasting it in terms of acts of?matrixial/maternal hospitality" prod...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The question?Where do we come from?" has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and artists for generations. This book reorients the question of the matrix as a place where everything comes from (chora, womb, incubator) by recasting it in terms of acts of?matrixial/maternal hospitality" producing space and matter of and for the other. Irina Aristarkhova theorizes such hospitality with the potential to go beyond tolerance in understanding self/other relations. Building on and critically evaluating a wide range of historical and contemporary scholarship, she applies this theoretical framewo. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780231504089 023150408X |