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Into the extreme : U.S. environmental systems and politics beyond Earth /

Valerie Olson, Author | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | 2018

What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson's Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the scope and scale of today[...]

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Program earth : environmental sensing technology and the making of a computational planet /

Jennifer Gabrys, Author | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | Electronic mediations | 2016

Sensors are everywhere. Small, flexible, economical, and computationally powerful, they operate ubiquitously in environments. They compile massive amounts of data, including information about air, water, and climate. Never before has such a volu[...]

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Cosmopolitics : vol. 1

Isabelle Stengers, Author | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | 2011

From Einstein's quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking's belief that we "would know the mind of God"through such a theory, contemporary science--and physics in particular--has claimed that it alone possesses absolute knowledge of th[...]

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Cosmopolitics : vol. 2

Isabelle Stengers, Author | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press | 2011

From Einstein's quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking's belief that we "would know the mind of God"through such a theory, contemporary science--and physics in particular--has claimed that it alone possesses absolute knowledge of th[...]

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