Magic Science Religion
Intro -- Magic Science Religion -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About this Book -- 1 Introduction -- 1 All or Nothing? -- 2 Kindness -- ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma -- ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies -- ASIDE: Our Gods -- 3 Cruelty -- ASIDE: Ghostly Causality -- ASIDE: Dura...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Experimental Practices : Technoscience, Literature, Art, Philosophy
Volume 2 Experimental Practices Ser |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and science
B Science ; Social aspects B Magic-Social aspects B Science and magic B Magic ; Social aspects B Magic-Religious aspects B Electronic books B Magic ; Religious aspects B Science-Social aspects |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Livingston, Ira: Magic Science Religion. - Boston : BRILL,c2018. - 9789004357105 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Magic Science Religion -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About this Book -- 1 Introduction -- 1 All or Nothing? -- 2 Kindness -- ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma -- ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies -- ASIDE: Our Gods -- 3 Cruelty -- ASIDE: Ghostly Causality -- ASIDE: Durable Cruelties -- 4 Beginning, Again -- ASIDE: Chaos Invoked -- 5 The Freedom Not to Choose -- ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes -- ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion -- ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer's Will -- ASIDE: Shapely Sentences -- ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version -- 2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell -- 1 Horror Movie Reboot -- 2 Interpositivity -- ASIDE: Interpositivity -- 3 Becoming a System -- 4 Creatures of Light -- ASIDE: Transformative for Whom? -- ASIDE: Plant Sorcery -- 5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires -- ASIDE: iii -- ASIDE: Co-evolution -- 6 Leveled -- ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late -- ASIDE: Up Around the Bend -- 7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things -- 8 Dynamism -- ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity -- 9 Magic, but No Black Boxes -- ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version -- 10 Wildness -- ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory -- 3 Magic by Example -- 1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell) -- 2 Placebo Magic -- ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic -- ASIDE: Following the Scent -- 3 Mirror Magic -- 4 Biting Game -- 5 Dog Whisperer -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Future Perfect -- 1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act -- 2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting -- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer -- 3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines -- ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church -- ASIDE: Falling Off a Log -- 4 Magical Militarism -- 5 Four Asides -- ASIDE: Dr. Livingston's Time Travel 101 -- ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence. |
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| ISBN: | 9004358072 |