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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| Language: | English |
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Manchester University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- Part IV summaryPostscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
