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From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of
interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts
of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant
metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of
interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we
miss some of its most surprising and far-reaching implications. In
Interdependence, biologist Kriti Sharma offers a compelling
alternative to the popular view that interdependence simply means
independent things interacting. Sharma systematically shows how
interdependence entails the mutual constitution of one thing by
another-how all things come into being only in a system of
dependence on others. In a step-by-step account filled with vivid
examples, Sharma shows how a coherent view of interdependence can
help make sense not only of a range of everyday experiences but
also of the most basic functions of living cells. With particular
attention to the fundamental biological problem of how cells pick
up signals from their surroundings, Sharma shows that only an
account which replaces the perspective of "individual cells
interacting with external environments" with one centered in
interdependent, recursive systems can adequately account for how
life works. This book will be of interest to biologists and
philosophers, to theorists of science, of systems, and of
cybernetics, and to anyone curious about how life works. Clear,
concise, and insightful, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond
explicitly offers a coherent and practical philosophy of
interdependence and will help shape what interdependence comes to
mean in the twenty-first century.
From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of
interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts
of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant
metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of
interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we
miss some of its most surprising and far-reaching implications. In
Interdependence, biologist Kriti Sharma offers a compelling
alternative to the popular view that interdependence simply means
independent things interacting. Sharma systematically shows how
interdependence entails the mutual constitution of one thing by
another—how all things come into being only in a system of
dependence on others. In a step-by-step account filled with vivid
examples, Sharma shows how a coherent view of interdependence can
help make sense not only of a range of everyday experiences but
also of the most basic functions of living cells. With particular
attention to the fundamental biological problem of how cells pick
up signals from their surroundings, Sharma shows that only an
account which replaces the perspective of “individual cells
interacting with external environments” with one centered in
interdependent, recursive systems can adequately account for how
life works. This book will be of interest to biologists and
philosophers, to theorists of science, of systems, and of
cybernetics, and to anyone curious about how life works. Clear,
concise, and insightful, Interdependence: Biology and Beyond
explicitly offers a coherent and practical philosophy of
interdependence and will help shape what interdependence comes to
mean in the twenty-first century.
This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary
crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a
certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we
live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or the
fundamental separateness of things. The authors contend that the
key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways
of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the
fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they
refer to as relationality. This shift in paradigm is necessary for
healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large.
The book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the
one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and
the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it
elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is
embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life.
The authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical,
scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and
action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living
within seemingly ineluctable ‘toxic loops’ of unrelational
living (based on ontological dualism), to living within
‘relational weaves’ which we might co-create with multiple
human and nonhuman others.
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