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the other biocultural studies

Posted in Philosophy, tagged on March 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Following from the last entry: I should have mentioned the other kind of biocultural studies that’s been getting more & more attention recently: see here, here, and here. The “Biocultures Manifesto,” which appeared in New Literary History back in 2007, seemed to suggest that it was time for all the work on embodiment, biopolitics (Foucauldian, […]

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cultural studies’ biosemiotic turn?

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »

One of the impressive recent efforts to bring the physical sciences and the social sciences and humanities back onto “consilient” speaking terms (to use E. O. Wilson’s terminology, though his own efforts at this have been unimpressive) is Wendy Wheeler’s The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. Wheeler is a humanist, an […]

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