Richard M. Doyle

Darwin's Pharmacy

Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Weaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs

Produktdetails

• In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 177mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780295990958
• ISBN-10: 0295990953
• Artikelnr.: 32727572

Autorenporträt

Richard M. Doyle is professor of English and science, technology, and society at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of On Beyond Living and Wetwares

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction Glimpsing the Peacock Angel
1. The Flowers of Perception: Trip Reports, Stigmergy, and the Nth Person
Plural
2. Rhetorical Mycelium: Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts?
3. Rhetorical Adjuncts and the Evolution of Rhetoric: Darwin's Impassioned
Speech
4. LSDNA : Creative Problem Solving, Consciousness Expansion, and the
Emergence of Biotechnology
5. Hyperbolic: Divining Ayahuasca
6. The Transgenic Involution
7. From Zero to One: Metaprogramming Noise, with Special Reference to Plant
Intelligence
Epilogue: In Darwin's Dreams
Notes
References
Index