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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Dorion Sagan; ProQuest (Firm) |
OCLC Number: | 1261933933 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Description: | 293 p. |
Contents: | ContentsIntroduction: Condensed-The Questing SpiritPart I. From Protozoan to the Posthuman1. The Human Is More Than Human: Interspecies Communities and the New Facts of Life 2. Bataille's Sun and the Ethical Abyss: Late-Night Thoughts on the Problem of an Affirmative Biopolitics3. The Post-Man Already Always Rings TwicePart II. Stardust Memories4. Stardust Memories 5. A Quick History of Sex6. Who Is I?7. Of Whales and Aliens: The Search for Intelligent Life on EarthPart III. Gaia Sings the Blues8. Thermosemiosis: Boltzmann's Sleight, Trim's Hat, and the Confusion concerning Entropy9. Life Gave Earth the Blues10. MousetrapPart IV. Closing the Open Circuit11. Priests of the Modern Age: Scientific Revolutions and the Kook-Critic Continuum, Being a Play of Crackpots, Skeptics, Conformists, and the Curious12. Metametazoa13. Kermitronics14. On Doyle on DrugsConclusion: Floating into Spinoza's OceanAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex |
Responsibility: | Dorion Sagan. |
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"Utterly astounding . . . there's hardly a paragraph that couldn't spawn a scholarly conference. Or a sleepless acid night." -David Lenson, author of On Drugs "Profound, elegant, and funny, Cosmic Apprentice is a treat for anyone who likes to think-that is, for any true member of the Craniata, equipped with both brains and backbones!" -Greg Bear"A brief read through the dedication and I was hooked! A first taste on the tongue of the delicious menu of science, philosophy, and just plain astute observations of Life in the Anthropocene found within. Part poet, part class clown, and part magician, Dorion Sagan spreads his prose before us like a gourmet chef of thought. He is a worthy differentiated clone of his parents, but more critically he is a highly original microbial colony in his own right." -Penny Boston, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology and the National Cave & Karst Research Institute Read more...

