Magic Science Religion: Experimental Practices, cartea 2
Autor Ira Livingstonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004357105
ISBN-10: 9004357106
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Experimental Practices
ISBN-10: 9004357106
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Experimental Practices
Notă biografică
Ira Livingston teaches and directs Poetics Lab at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. His many books - such as the 2015 digital book Poetics as a Theory of Everything (available free online) - cultivate hybrids of cultural studies and systems theory.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments.
About this Book
1 Introduction
1 All or Nothing?
2 Kindness
ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma
ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies
ASIDE: Our Gods
3 Cruelty
ASIDE: Ghostly Causality
ASIDE: Durable Cruelties
4 Beginning, Again
ASIDE: Chaos Invoked
5 The Freedom Not to Choose
ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes
ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion
ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer’s Will
ASIDE: Shapely Sentences
ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version
2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell
1 Horror Movie Reboot
2 Interpositivity
ASIDE: Interpositivity
3 Becoming a System
4 Creatures of Light
ASIDE: Transformative for Whom?
ASIDE: Plant Sorcery
5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires
ASIDE: iii
ASIDE: Co-evolution
6 Leveled
ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late
ASIDE: Up Around the Bend
7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things
8 Dynamism
ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity
9 Magic, but No Black Boxes
ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version
10 Wildness
ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory
3 Magic by Example
1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell)
2 Placebo Magic
ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic
ASIDE: Following the Scent
3 Mirror Magic
4 Biting Game
5 Dog Whisperer
6 Conclusion
4 Future Perfect
1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act
2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting
ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer
3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines
ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church
ASIDE: Falling Off a Log
4 Magical Militarism
5 Four Asides
ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Time Travel 101
ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence
ASIDE: A Somewhat Mysticizing Account of Rationalist Nonviolence
ASIDE: Four Scholars
5 What is Religion?
1 A Fuzzy Set
2 Magic, Science, and Religion Coevolve
3 Restoring the Chaos
4 Rain Dance
ASIDE: From Flow
5 Providence, via Vico
ASIDE: Systematizers Systematized
6 God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama)
1 Salience to Sentience
2 Primordial Systemhood Membership Narratives
ASIDE: Law and Order
3 The Myth of the Acquisition-of-Consciousness Moment
4 Use of the Terms I and We
5 Cis-Systems → Trans-Systems
6 First Caveat: Characters
7 Plant and Animal Intelligence
8 Learning and Evolution from a Systems Perspective
9 Second Caveat: Plot
10 Especially Informative Postinfundibular Amphioxus Hypothalamus Neuropile
11 The Holy Grail
ASIDE: Neuro-X
12 Teamlikeness
ASIDE: Play and Teamlikeness
ASIDE: Three-Ring Circuits
13 Conclusion
7 Blake Magic
1 Famous in Heaven
ASIDE: No Success Like Failure
2 Blake Magic
3 Auguries
ASIDE: Prophecies
4 Angel Kings
5 Magic in the Current Conjuncture
6 Five Asides
ASIDE: Black Lives Matter and Judith Butler
ASIDE: An Elegant Pose
ASIDE: Ritual Retraction
ASIDE: Obscurity
ASIDE: Butterfly Tornado
References
Index
About this Book
1 Introduction
1 All or Nothing?
2 Kindness
ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma
ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies
ASIDE: Our Gods
3 Cruelty
ASIDE: Ghostly Causality
ASIDE: Durable Cruelties
4 Beginning, Again
ASIDE: Chaos Invoked
5 The Freedom Not to Choose
ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes
ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion
ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer’s Will
ASIDE: Shapely Sentences
ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version
2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell
1 Horror Movie Reboot
2 Interpositivity
ASIDE: Interpositivity
3 Becoming a System
4 Creatures of Light
ASIDE: Transformative for Whom?
ASIDE: Plant Sorcery
5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires
ASIDE: iii
ASIDE: Co-evolution
6 Leveled
ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late
ASIDE: Up Around the Bend
7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things
8 Dynamism
ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity
9 Magic, but No Black Boxes
ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version
10 Wildness
ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory
3 Magic by Example
1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell)
2 Placebo Magic
ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic
ASIDE: Following the Scent
3 Mirror Magic
4 Biting Game
5 Dog Whisperer
6 Conclusion
4 Future Perfect
1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act
2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting
ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer
3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines
ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church
ASIDE: Falling Off a Log
4 Magical Militarism
5 Four Asides
ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Time Travel 101
ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence
ASIDE: A Somewhat Mysticizing Account of Rationalist Nonviolence
ASIDE: Four Scholars
5 What is Religion?
1 A Fuzzy Set
2 Magic, Science, and Religion Coevolve
3 Restoring the Chaos
4 Rain Dance
ASIDE: From Flow
5 Providence, via Vico
ASIDE: Systematizers Systematized
6 God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama)
1 Salience to Sentience
2 Primordial Systemhood Membership Narratives
ASIDE: Law and Order
3 The Myth of the Acquisition-of-Consciousness Moment
4 Use of the Terms I and We
5 Cis-Systems → Trans-Systems
6 First Caveat: Characters
7 Plant and Animal Intelligence
8 Learning and Evolution from a Systems Perspective
9 Second Caveat: Plot
10 Especially Informative Postinfundibular Amphioxus Hypothalamus Neuropile
11 The Holy Grail
ASIDE: Neuro-X
12 Teamlikeness
ASIDE: Play and Teamlikeness
ASIDE: Three-Ring Circuits
13 Conclusion
7 Blake Magic
1 Famous in Heaven
ASIDE: No Success Like Failure
2 Blake Magic
3 Auguries
ASIDE: Prophecies
4 Angel Kings
5 Magic in the Current Conjuncture
6 Five Asides
ASIDE: Black Lives Matter and Judith Butler
ASIDE: An Elegant Pose
ASIDE: Ritual Retraction
ASIDE: Obscurity
ASIDE: Butterfly Tornado
References
Index