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Preface |
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1 Life As You Don't Know It |
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1 | (20) |
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1.2 Beyond the bete machine |
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2 | (1) |
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1.3 Replaying the tape of life |
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2 | (2) |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (2) |
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1.6 Mineral sensibilities |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (3) |
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1.8 Biogenesis and vivogenesis |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (2) |
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1.10 Dissipative adaptation |
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14 | (1) |
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1.11 Phantasmagoria of life |
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14 | (2) |
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1.12 Life as material subversion |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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1.14 Chicken and egg: The paradox of lively matter |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (3) |
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2 Experimental And Soft Living Architecture |
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21 | (14) |
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2.1 Experimental architecture |
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21 | (3) |
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2.1.1 Twenty-first-century experimental architecture |
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22 | (2) |
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2.2 Soft living architecture |
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24 | (7) |
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2.2.1 The character of `life' in soft living architecture |
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25 | (1) |
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2.2.2 Soft living architecture: Examples |
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26 | (3) |
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2.2.3 Soft living architecture: Body |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (3) |
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35 | (18) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (1) |
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3.4 The changing character of nature |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (2) |
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41 | (2) |
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3.7 The gluttony of death |
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43 | (3) |
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46 | (1) |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (1) |
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3.11 Insurrection and death |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (3) |
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4 Synthesis: Entangled Materials, Tools And Methods |
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53 | (22) |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (9) |
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4.2.1 Computing with humans |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (1) |
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4.2.3 Dissipative structures |
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59 | (2) |
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4.2.4 Consciousness and living materials |
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61 | (3) |
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64 | (3) |
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67 | (4) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (16) |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (1) |
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5.4 Alternative methodologies |
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79 | (2) |
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5.5 Alternative experiments |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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5.7 Alternative architectures |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (3) |
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5.9 Alternative roles for architects |
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88 | (3) |
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6 Laboratories And Convergences |
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91 | (20) |
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91 | (1) |
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6.2 The soft city of Venice |
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92 | (1) |
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6.3 Living stones of Venice |
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93 | (1) |
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6.4 Automatic Venetian chess |
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94 | (2) |
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96 | (3) |
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6.6 The invisible laboratory: An alternative synthetic platform |
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99 | (1) |
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99 | (2) |
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101 | (1) |
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101 | (3) |
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6.10 Lost music: Antonio Vivaldi |
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104 | (2) |
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6.11 Channelling and knotting |
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106 | (1) |
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6.12 Phantasmagorical laboratory |
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107 | (2) |
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6.13 Immersive sensible kaleidoscope |
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109 | (2) |
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111 | (26) |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (2) |
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123 | (2) |
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125 | (3) |
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128 | (2) |
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7.10 Doggerland: Uncertainty, prophecy and the near-shore experience |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (1) |
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7.12 Corresponding with the cosmos |
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134 | (3) |
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137 | (26) |
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137 | (3) |
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8.1.1 Microbial fuel cell |
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138 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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8.1.3 Synthetic bioreactor |
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138 | (2) |
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8.1.4 Integration and uses |
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140 | (1) |
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140 | (3) |
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142 | (1) |
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8.2.2 Embryological brick |
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143 | (1) |
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8.2.3 Lamprey shoe: Blood bank |
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143 | (1) |
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143 | (8) |
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8.3.1 Living brick for Venice |
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145 | (2) |
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8.3.2 Titrating tensions: Hips and teeth |
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147 | (4) |
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151 | (4) |
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8.4.1 City of soft living architecture |
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151 | (4) |
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155 | (5) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (2) |
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8.5.3 Melma Verde: Island of useless things |
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159 | (1) |
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160 | (3) |
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163 | (14) |
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9.1 Persephone: Constructing the Babelsphere |
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163 | (1) |
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9.2 Persephone: Worlding instrument |
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164 | (1) |
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9.3 Persephone: The Temptations of the Non-linear Ladder |
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165 | (3) |
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9.4 Persephone: The Capsule of Crossed Destinies (the Hanged Man) |
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168 | (2) |
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168 | (1) |
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9.4.2 Biospherical bottle |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (1) |
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9.5 Babelsphere: Inhabiting a world in meltdown (Radical Circus) |
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170 | (7) |
Epilogue |
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177 | (2) |
Glossary |
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179 | (10) |
References |
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189 | (14) |
Index |
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