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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 127–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., by comparing criminals with “lower races,” it established race as the governing principle for reading criminal bodies; and second, it developed a host of practices combining biology and statistics to decipher criminal/racial bodies. By the turn of the century, somapolitics gained exceptional popularity across...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (1): 17–34.
Published: 01 February 2021
.... The history of philology engages language, the sciences (especially evolutionary biology), and race, all of which are evidenced in the work of the German philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt. The relationships among these discourses have been repeatedly subject to deconstruction, sometimes so as to enhance...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 221–232.
Published: 01 February 2001
... for society. Stanley Shostak attempts all four of these tasks in his books Death of Life and The Evolution of Sameness and Difference. The first, Death of Life, offers a stark evaluation of the area of biology that is the source of most of the language of genetics to which we have be- come accustomed...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 245–247.
Published: 01 August 2003
... is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and Emeri- tus Editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures. His publications include Eco- logical Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind and Artistry...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 243–245.
Published: 01 February 2010
... in chief of Pikaia (www.pikaia.eu), fellow of the Italian Society of Evolutionary Biology and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, and a member of the editorial boards of Evolutionary Biology and Evolution: Education & Outreach. Scott Pound is associate professor of English at Lakehead...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (3): 207–216.
Published: 01 August 2001
... for determining a definitive relation between particu- lar and general intelligence, except that of blood, or race. The presiding thought has two basic presumptions. One is biological. That is, that biology somehow determines cultural expression. Supporting this presumption is a further presumption...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 213–239.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., objectives: ‘‘Throughout his later career in evolutionary biology, de Vries insisted that his success 15. Saltationist theories appeared in several guises—discontinuous variation, hetero- genesis, macromutation...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 May 2002
... consists of universal, necessary, eternal principles, ex- pressed in the abstract, impersonal language of pure mathematics. That kind of understanding whose paradigm is Darwin’s biology is a concrete, situated narrative of local, contingent, mutable practical reciprocal accom- modations of particular...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (1): 237–238.
Published: 01 February 2001
... at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin at Madison. She is coeditor of Pli—The WarwickJournal of Phi- losophy. Her research interests are in the areas of philosophy of biology, specifically symbiosis, bacterial evolution, and post-Darwinian approaches to evolution. Rob Wilson is professor of transnational...
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boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 181–198.
Published: 01 August 2019
... . “ History and Biology in the Anthropocene: Problems of Scale, Problems of Value .” American Historical Review 119 , no. 5 : 1587 – 1607 . Uzawa Hirofumi . 2003 . Economic Theory and Global Warming . New York : Cambridge University Press . ...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 141–155.
Published: 01 August 2003
... self-fissioning and self-reformulatings, and anthropology has played a part in that game, much as at the beginning of the nineteenth century chemis- try and biology transformed the aims and methods of all scientific endeav- ors...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 191–212.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of Aisthesis 197 2011: 89–90; 2004: 125). Existence, in this respect, consists in the way that tools take us out (ex of our inhesion in biology and open us onto alterna- tive possibilities of being. We ex-­ist because we con-­sist in technics, sus- pended between our bodies and our tools, between our...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 203–222.
Published: 01 February 2024
... that is unfamiliar to modern society; and the impossibility of controlling them through standard institutions. Hannah Landecker ( 2016 ) suggests that for history to deal with such a biological “event,” we should not think of a history of biology but a biology of history, the multiple times (processes) of organisms...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 125–151.
Published: 01 February 2002
... thought on racism and biology. 10. See also Stuart Elden, Mapping the Present: Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History (London and New York: Continuum, 2001), 139–41. 11. The dismissal of such false paternities is most detailed in FDS, 51, 77–79. See Pasquale Pasquino, ‘‘Political...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 February 2010
..., from molecular biology to pale- ontology: “The convergence in the results of these independent studies— which was neither planned nor sought—constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory.”10 Indeed, in his statement, John Paul II did not specifically mention...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (2): 133–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
...: Eurasianist linguistics extended this geopolitical model into the twentieth century, drawing on the disciplines of geography, biology, economics, and a political-military idiom. Following the work of the Russian biologists and geographers Lev Berg and Igor Savitsky, Roman Jakobson argues in “Toward...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (2): 119–151.
Published: 01 May 2020
... a rupture between biology and history, or, more precisely, a rupture within biology instituted by history. This is consistent in his thinking throughout. Consider his peculiar but fecund way of conceiving natural history. What in this text he calls the relation between nature and the human (487) to which...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (1): 5–41.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., 1988), 103. 30 boundary 2 / February 2016 affective body?67 Can the postconstructivist materialism that Braidotti men- tions avoid a psychophysicalism that reduces everything, music included, to a question of “biology”? In a synthesis of recent theories of the development of human...
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boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 123–140.
Published: 01 August 2003
... is capable of error. And it is perhaps this given or rather fundamental eventuality which must be called to account concerning the fact that anomaly crosses all of biology, through and throughitmustbe that error...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (1): 195–215.
Published: 01 February 2015
... The International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization have made similar changes to their developmen- tal policies.17 The concept of adaptation—historically­ important to disciplines such as evolutionary biology (Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste­ Lamarck) and natural theology (William...