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Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations.
Lorimer describes cases in which scientists and managers are working with biological processes to improve human, environmental, and even planetary health, pursuing strategies that...
2) The God Drug
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"You may wonder why I tell you this, but bear with me. I didn't realize it then, but I had stumbled on something of enormous importance. Something that will redefine mankind. Something that could redefine you." (Adrian - posthuman)
The world is changing. A mass market drug promised to boost intelligence. The world embraced it, and soon, everyone was a genius, but only for a while. The long-term effects crippled the world societies. A select few...
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Posthumanities volume 27
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University of Minnesota Press
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[2013]
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English
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"Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"--Entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that...
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Posthumanities volume 3
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University of Minnesota Press
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c2008
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Posthumanities volume 41
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University of Minnesota Press
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[2017]
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English
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