Network Nature
eBook - PDF

Network Nature

The Place of Nature in the Digital Age

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Network Nature

The Place of Nature in the Digital Age

About this book

How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is easy to task nature as the cure, with technology as the ailment. In Network Nature, Richard Coyne challenges the definitions of both the natural and the artificial that support this time-worn narrative of nature's benefits. In the process, he attacks the counter-claim that nature must succumb to the sovereignty of digital data. Covering a spectrum of issues and concepts, from big data and biohacking to animality, numinous spaces and the post-digital, he draws on the rich field of semiotics as applied to natural systems and human communication, to enhance our understanding of place, landscape and architecture in a digital world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of Figures
  10. Introduction
  11. 1. Tuning in to nature
  12. 2. What nature?
  13. 3. The book of nature
  14. 4. Biohacking
  15. 5. Reproducing nature
  16. 6. The book of stones
  17. 7. Natural selection
  18. 8. Zoo-space
  19. 9. Refuge
  20. 10. Numinous nature
  21. 11. Nature unplugged
  22. Coda
  23. Notes
  24. References
  25. Index