Title: Between science and literature : an introduction to autopoetics /
Authors: Livingston, Ira, 1956-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Literature Philosophy; Poetics.
Abstract: Between Science and Literature introduces the fundamentals of cultural and literary theory to nonspecialists while reorienting these fields toward exciting new ideas, especially the notion of language itself as a kind of living thing. In the process, Ira Livingston draws on the work of thinkers across disciplines, from philosophers like Deleuze and Guattari to sociologists like Niklas Luhmann and biologists like Stuart Kauffmann, as well as historians, gender theorists, and science fiction writers. -- from back cover.
Contents: The livingthinglikeness of language -- Words and things -- Thirds and wings -- The order of things in a nutshell -- Artistic interlude I -- An introductory vignette -- Sometimes a cigar -- On meaning -- Fact and fiction -- How bad facts make good theories -- Self-reference I -- Self-reference II -- Autopoiesis -- Poetic interlude -- Performativity I -- Performativity II -- Artistic interlude II -- Performativity III -- The return to resemblance -- Gravity cannot be held responsible? -- Queer in a queer world -- An alienist history.