Main entry:

Abel, Chris, author.

Title & Author:

The extended self : architecture, memes and minds / Chris Abel.

Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Description:

xx, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Identities. The common bond ; The body nucleus ; Embodied minds -- Part II: Origins. Technics and the human ; Rethinking evolution ; From genes to memes -- Part III: Combinations. Types and taxonomies ; Technical memes and assemblages ; Combinatorial design -- Part IV: Transformations. Recasting the extended self ; Appropriating cyberspace -- Postscript.

Summary:

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.Drawing upon research from philosophy, psychology and the neurosciences, the book presents a new approach to environmental and cultural studies that will appeal to a broad readership searching for insights into the crisis.

ISBN:

9780719096112 (hbk.)
0719096111 (hbk.)
9780719096129 (pbk.)
071909612X (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Architecture et société.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294959
Call No.: BIB 240889
Status: Available