Animal Electricity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Animal Electricity write by Robert B. Campenot. This book was released on 2016-02-15. Animal Electricity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking—the things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.
On Animal Electricity
On Animal Electricity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Animal Electricity write by Augustus Désiré Waller. This book was released on 1897. On Animal Electricity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Experiments on Animal Electricity
Experiments on Animal Electricity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experiments on Animal Electricity write by Eusebio Valli. This book was released on 1793. Experiments on Animal Electricity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Electric Animal
Electric Animal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Electric Animal write by Akira Mizuta Lippit. This book was released on 2000. Electric Animal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity -- essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema. Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound animal and human being, Electric Animal raises a series of questions regarding the idea of animality in Western thought. Can animals communicate? Do they have consciousness? Are they aware of death? By tracing questions such as these through a wide range of texts by writers ranging from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud to Vicki Heame, Lewis Carroll to Franz Kafka, and Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Deleuze, Lippit arrives at a remarkable thesis, revealing an extraordinary logical consensus in Western thought: animals do not have language and hence cannot die. The animal has, accordingly, haunted thought as a form of spectral and undead being. Lippit demonstrates how, in the late nineteenth century; this phantasmic concept of animal being reached the proportions of an epistemological crisis, engendering the disciplines and media of psychoanalysis, modern literature, and cinema, among others. Against the prohibitive logic of Western philosophy, these fields opened a space for rethinking animality. Technology, usually thought of in opposition to nature, came to serve as therepository for an unmournable animality -- a kind of vast wildlife museum. A highly original work that charts new territory in current debates over language and mortality, subjectivity and technology, Electric Animal brings to light fundamental questions about the status of representation -- of the animal and of ourselves -- in the age of biomechanical reproduction.
Shocking Frogs
Shocking Frogs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shocking Frogs write by Marco Piccolino. This book was released on 2013. Shocking Frogs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "... and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us to be perhaps the first in handling, as it were, the electricity concealed in nerves, in extracting it from nerves, and, in some way, in putting it under everyone's eyes." With these words, Luigi Galvani announced to the world in 1791 his discovery that nervous conduction and muscle excitation are electrical phenomena. The result of more than years of intense experimental work, Galvani's milestone achievement concluded a thousand-year scientific search, in a field long dominated by the antiquated beliefs of classical science. Besides laying the grounds for the development of the modern neurosciences, Galvani's discovery also brought to light an invention that would forever change humankind's everyday life: the electric battery of Alessandro Volta. In an accessible style, written for specialists and general readers alike, Shocking Frogs retraces the steps of both scientific discoveries, starting with the initial hypotheses of the Enlightenment on the involvement of electricity in life processes. So doing, it also reveals the inconsistency of the many stereotypes that an uncritical cultural tradition has imparted to the legacies of Galvani and Volta, and proposes a decidedly new image of these monumental figures.
