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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aristarkhova, I. (Irina)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231504089
023150408X