Co-edited with Lydia Azadpour.

Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosophy of nature' owing to his profound influence on German Idealist and Romantic Naturphilosophie. With the recent growth of interest in Idealist and Romantic philosophy of nature in the UK and abroad, the importance of Kielmeyer's work is being increasingly recognised and special attention is being paid to his influence on biology's development as a distinct discipline at the end of the eighteenth century. In this exciting new book, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler present the first ever English translations of key texts by Kielmeyer, along with contextual and interpretative essays by leading international scholars, who are experts on the philosophy of nature and the formation of the life sciences in the late eighteenth century. The topics they cover include: the laws of nature, the concept of force, the meaning of 'organism', the logic of recapitulation, Kielmeyer and ecology, sexual differentiation in animal life and Kielmeyer's relationship to Kant, Schelling and Hegel. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive English reference to Kielmeyer's historical and contemporary significance.

Contents

One: Editors’ Introduction, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler

Two: Kielmeyer’s Fame and Fate, Kai Torsten Kanz

Part One: Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech

Three: On the Relations between Organic Forces in the Series of Different Organisations, and on the Laws and Consequences of these Relations, C. F. Kielmeyer

Part Two: Selected Unpublished Texts by Kielmeyer

Four: On Natural History, C. F. Kielmeyer

Five: Ideas for a Developmental History of the Earth and its Organisations: Letter to Windischmann, 1804, C. F. Kielmeyer

Six: On Kant and German Philosophy of Nature: Letter to Cuvier, 1807, C. F. Kielmeyer

Part Three: Interpretations

Seven: Force and Law in Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech, Andrew Cooper

Eight: Organic Physics as a Phenomenology of the Organic, Thomas Bach

Nine: The Path of the Great Machine: Kielmeyer’s Economy of Extinction, Lydia Azadpour

Ten: Recapitulation All the Way Down? Philosophical Ontogeny in Kielmeyer and Schelling, Iain Hamilton Grant

Eleven: Kielmeyer and the Cybernetics of the Organic World, Andrea Gambarotto

Twelve: Reproduction, Production and the Earth: The Place of Sex in Kielmeyer’s ‘Economy of the Organic World’, Susanne Lettow

Thirteen: Mechanics beyond the Machine in Kielmeyer and Eschenmayer, Jocelyn Holland

Fourteen: The Logic of Organic Forces: Hegel’s Critique of Kielmeyer, Benjamin Berger

Available here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kielmeyer-and-the-organic-world-9781350143463/.

Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks intersected with the creation of know-how and expertise. Referred to by the authors as “scientific bonanzas,” such intersections reveal opportunities for great wealth, but also distress and misfortune.
This volume explores how innovative technologies provided research opportunities for scientists and engineers, as they relied on expertise to operate, which resulted in enormous profits for some. But, like the history of any gold rush, the history of infrastructure also reveals how technologies of modernity transformed nature, disrupting communities and destroying the local environment. Focusing not on the victory march of science and technology but on ambivalent change, contributors consider the role of infrastructures for ecology, geology, archaeology, soil science, engineering, ethnography, heritage, and polar exploration. Together, they also examine largely overlooked perspectives on modernity: the reliance of infrastructure on knowledge, and infrastructures as places and occasions that inspired a greater understanding of the natural world and the technologically made environment.

Electric Brine with Dionne Brand, Barbara Orland, Sophie Lewis, Esther Leslie, Hannah Landecker, Lisa Robertson with introductions by Jennifer Teets and Margarida Mendes.

Flowing, seeping, leaking, cascading, shaping. Electric Brine is a volume of poetry and critical essays by women voices from diverse fields such as literature, geography, media studies, history of life sciences, sociology, and poetics of science and fiction, each of them central to the independent curatorial research entity The World in Which We Occur (TWWWO, 2014-ongoing) and its associated online study group Matter in Flux. Conceived as an anthology and a register, it serves as a testimony to the initiative’s long-standing work of creative adaptation and ecological inquiry through a quest to situate a vision of material politics through the lens of six punctuated pieces on flow and fluids. The literary and scientific fabulations found in these pages speak of the conjunction of lived embodiment, the materialized quality of language, and the ability to trigger political imagination through reading, writing and witnessing. Each of these strands polyperform under TWWWO, for they can be traced, retroactively, to the themes present in the live event series, to Matter in Flux’s private study sessions, to the initiative’s collective writing work presented in public venues and publications. Also included in this volume is an appendix documenting the years of invitation and study, intricately linked to the ideological praxis of these overlaps.

Editor: Jennifer Teets
Co-editors: Elise Hunchuck and Margarida Mendes
Proofreading: Gareth Hammond and Willy Smart
Design: Atelier Brenda, Sophie Keij with the assistance of Adèle Gallé and Axel Villarreal
Typeset in Stempel Garamond
Paper is Constellation Jade and Munken
Printed and bound by die Keure
160 pp. 11.8 x 19.6 cm
ISBN 978-3-948212-49-0

First edition, 500 copies.
Published by Archive Books.
Berlin, Germany, 2021.

Archive Books
Reinickendorfer Straße 17
DE 13347 Berlin
archivebooks.org

Jean-Patrice Boudet; Charles Burnett; Irene Caiazzo; Joël Chandelier;
Chiara Crisciani; Patrick Gautier Dalché; Matthieu Husson; Danielle Jacquart; David Juste; Bruno Laurioux; Maaike van der Lugt; Michael McVaugh; Laurence Moulinier-Brogi; Marilyn Nicoud; Barbara Obrist; Cecilia Panti; Agostino Paravicini Bagliani; Michel Pastoureau; Michela Pereira; Francesco Santi; Baudouin Van den Abeele; Iolanda Ventura; Julien Véronèse; Oleg Voskoboynikov; Nicolas Weill-Parot; Jean Wirth; Joseph Ziegler.

First published in 1993, the journal "Micrologus" has provided a space offered, notably through its colloquia, a space in which scientific scientific knowledge has been placed in the context of the various environments where it has flourished. The articles in this 100th volume of "Micrologus Library" sketch the contours of these spaces of of scientific curiosity. The chronological framework covers the 13th-15th centuries. In the thirteenth century, the establishment of a university education open to the arts of the quadrivium, natural philosophy and medicine, also constituted a strong structuring of knowledge which, having been excluded, had taken other ways to impose themselves. The permeability of the border between science and magic meant that it was necessary to be open to magical texts, including in their most extreme Solomonic expression. At the same time listening to the Jewish and Muslim worlds, it was Western Europe that was chosen as a space for reflection, in order to see consonances, dissonances and evolutions emerge; and to isolate common themes: the part played by the Christian environment, the obstacle of anachronism, the exchange of knowledge, the modes of transmission, and the inadequacy of the historiographical break between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.