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The extended self : Architecture, memes and minds
In this wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, the author argues that underlying the global environmental crisis is a general resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based culture and its energy-hungry products. The book traces the roots of th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Abel, Chris. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The extended self : |b Architecture, memes and minds |
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| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2020 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2016. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a THE EXTENDED SELF: ARCHITECTURE, MEMES AND MINDS: CHRIS ABEL; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Identities; 1 The common bond; 2 The body nucleus; 3 Embodied minds; Part I summary; Part II: Origins; 4 Technics and the human; 5 Rethinking evolution; 6 From genes to memes; Part II summary; Part III: Combinations; 7 Types and taxonomies; 8 Technical memes and assemblages; 9 Combinatorial design; Part III summary; Part IV: Transformations; 10 Recasting the extended self; 11 Appropriating cyberspace. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part IV summaryPostscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a In this wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, the author argues that underlying the global environmental crisis is a general resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based culture and its energy-hungry products. The book traces the roots of that culture to the coevolution of Homo sapiens and technology, from the first use of tools as artificial extensions of the human body, to the motorised cities spreading around the world, whose uncontrolled effects are changing the planet itself. Advancing a new concept of the meme, called the 'techni. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a ARCHITECTURE |x Buildings |x Landmarks & Monuments. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a ARCHITECTURE |x Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. |2 bisacsh | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive Global Cultural Studies Supplement VIII | ||