Where God Comes From : Reflections on Science, Systems, and the Sublime
ISBN: 9781780994000 | 1780994001
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Natl Book Network
Pub. Date: 10/16/2012
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Where God Comes From explores how the sublime and miraculous can be found in a whole range of processes-- from chemistry and biology to language and literature and social interactions -- and how they loop back on themselves to form complex systems, stitching themselves and their environments together. The book traces an arc that passes through a series of different essay forms: a prose poem in Twitter-length units, a philosophical dialogue, traditional essays, and finally a story. Each is a metacognitive investigation of mystical experience as ... MORE
| Introduction: The Vision of Ezekiel and the Films of Stanley Kubrick | p. 1 |
| Miracles and Signs | |
| Recognition to Infinity | p. 22 |
| The Gravity Suspension Miracle | p. 25 |
| The Perfect-Fitting Clothes Miracle | p. 29 |
| The Fried Noodles Miracle | p. 31 |
| The Miracle of the Materialized Key | p. 33 |
| The Mockingbird Sign | p. 34 |
| The Jellyfish Sign | p. 3... MORE |
| Road Trip #1: The Story of Virgil | p. 43 |
| Where God Comes From | p. 48 |
| The Pedestrian Sublime | p. 53 |
| A Web of Meandering Connections | p. 56 |
| Keats and Kauffman | p. 58 |
| Beginnings | |
| Are We Being Hustled by God? | p. 64 |
| Dumb Luck Versus Intelligent Design | p. 68 |
| Claymation | p. 74 |
| Getting Stuck and Unstuck | |
| The Lamb Soup of Xinjiang | p. 82 |
| Renunciation | p. 84 |
| Nonlinear Time Is Rife with Messiahs | p. 87 |
| Depressive Realism | p. 90 |
| Theory of Mind | p. 92 |
| Entification | p. 100 |
| Famous Poems Made Up of One Enormous Word | p. 106 |
| Beginning Again | |
| Chaos and Complexity Theory | p. 113 |
| Finding Your Theme Music | p. 125 |
| Poetics and Autopoietics | p. 132 |
| Ending and Returning | |
| Road Trip with(out) Professor Lee | p. 145 |
| Waking Up in Beijing | p. 151 |
| Still Knitting | p. 159 |
| Road Trip #3: An Answer for Thad | p. 165 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 184 |
| References | p. 185 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Ira Livingston is Professor and Chair of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
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