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The Human Scaffold on Hardback by Josh Berson

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The Human Scaffold

How Not to Design Your Way Out of a Climate Crisis

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Josh Berson

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Great Transformations

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Description

Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate. The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point.

Author Biography:

Josh Berson has held appointments at two Max Planck Institutes—Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the History of Science—and at the Berggruen Institute, where he was inaugural USC Berggruen Fellow in the Transformations of the Human. He is the author of The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food and Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche.

Release date Australia

March 23rd, 2021

Author

Josh Berson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

9 illustrations

Pages

248

Series

Great Transformations

Dimensions

140x210x20

ISBN-13

9780520380486

Product ID

33953742

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