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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if life isn't a special substance, a program, or a machine with a designer-but a self-sustaining loop that runs without anyone in charge?In Life Without a Manager, readers are taken on a radical yet lucid journey from the chemistry of a single bacterium to the stubborn inertia of bureaucracies, from bacterial chemotaxis to human consciousness, and from ancient Buddhist insights to the future of artificial intelligence.Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, this book presents autopoiesis-the idea that a living system is defined by a network of processes that continuously produce and maintain the very components (and boundary) that allow those processes to continue. No external blueprint. No supervising intelligence. Just an organizational loop that either keeps running or collapses into death.Along the way, the book dismantles many comfortable assumptions: - Life is not "in" the DNA, the membrane, or any single part-it exists in the relations that keep remaking themselves.- Cognition begins with bacteria, not brains: every living system makes sense of its world according to what sustains (or threatens) its own continuation.- The self is not a thing you have; it is something you do-a fragile, history-dependent maintenance process.- Institutions, legal systems, and economies behave like autopoietic unities: they reproduce themselves through communications, often at the expense of the people inside them.- Today's most powerful AI is extraordinarily capable-but not alive. It lacks the closed production loop that defines even the simplest cell.Written in clear, compelling prose that moves effortlessly between microbiology, philosophy, sociology, and speculative futures, this book is both an intellectual adventure and a quiet revolution in how we understand ourselves, our societies, and the machines we build.If you've ever wondered why living things feel different from everything else, why organizations resist change, why meaning seems both fragile and real, or whether AI could ever truly be "alive," Life Without a Manager offers the most precise and far-reaching answer available today.No manager required. The loop has been running for four billion years. We're just beginning to understand how. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In The Taxonomy of Dust: Aesthetics in the Age of Entropy, [author name or 'a sharp cultural critic' if unknown] delivers a razor-sharp, unflinching examination of how late-stage civilization has turned decay into its most seductive art form.As systems accelerate beyond human control and agency fades, beauty no longer celebrates life or transcendence-it eroticizes disappearance. From the cracked marble of crumbling empires to the glitchy artifacts of digital decay, we have learned to find elegance in entropy itself.This book maps the phenomenon with clinical precision and occasional devastating aphorism. It traces:¿ The death of the human viewer, as images optimize for algorithms and drones rather than eyes¿ The commodification of ruin-from 18th-century picturesque decay to modern 'ruin porn' in Detroit, Chernobyl, and abandoned malls¿ The fetishization of glitch, patina, and pre-distressed luxury as simulations of time in a future we no longer trust¿ Brutalism's raw exposure, the sublime stripped of redemption in vast AI-generated or cosmic desolation¿ Autonomous art that loops between machines, with no audience required¿ The erotics of disappearance in climate grief, apocalypse chic, and extinction imageryStructured as a taxonomy, the final section classifies late-stage beauty into categories of dust:¿ Structural Dust (skeletons of infrastructure and cities)¿ Digital Dust (data rot and corrupted media)¿ Biological Dust (bone fields and vanishing species)¿ Temporal Dust (nostalgia loops and retro-futurism)¿ Simulated Dust (engineered aging and artificial wear)Provocative yet restrained, the book avoids easy moralizing to ask harder questions: Is our obsession with entropy self-awareness or surrender Can vitality still compete with the allure of collapse If humanity's final artwork is its own elegant dissolution, is that tragedy-or perfect coherence 'Dust is what remains when intention exhausts itself.'For readers of cultural theory, systems thinking, art criticism, and speculative philosophy-anyone drawn to the dark glamour of a civilization polishing its own ruins-this is essential, haunting reading. Ideal for those who suspect beauty has quietly changed sides.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - What if life isn't a special substance, a program, or a machine with a designer-but a self-sustaining loop that runs without anyone in charge In Life Without a Manager, readers are taken on a radical yet lucid journey from the chemistry of a single bacterium to the stubborn inertia of bureaucracies, from bacterial chemotaxis to human consciousness, and from ancient Buddhist insights to the future of artificial intelligence.Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, this book presents autopoiesis-the idea that a living system is defined by a network of processes that continuously produce and maintain the very components (and boundary) that allow those processes to continue. No external blueprint. No supervising intelligence. Just an organizational loop that either keeps running or collapses into death.Along the way, the book dismantles many comfortable assumptions:¿ Life is not 'in' the DNA, the membrane, or any single part-it exists in the relations that keep remaking themselves.¿ Cognition begins with bacteria, not brains: every living system makes sense of its world according to what sustains (or threatens) its own continuation.¿ The self is not a thing you have; it is something you do-a fragile, history-dependent maintenance process.¿ Institutions, legal systems, and economies behave like autopoietic unities: they reproduce themselves through communications, often at the expense of the people inside them.¿ Today's most powerful AI is extraordinarily capable-but not alive. It lacks the closed production loop that defines even the simplest cell.Written in clear, compelling prose that moves effortlessly between microbiology, philosophy, sociology, and speculative futures, this book is both an intellectual adventure and a quiet revolution in how we understand ourselves, our societies, and the machines we build.If you've ever wondered why living things feel different from everything else, why organizations resist change, why meaning seems both fragile and real, or whether AI could ever truly be 'alive,' Life Without a Manager offers the most precise and far-reaching answer available today.No manager required. The loop has been running for four billion years. We're just beginning to understand how.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In The Taxonomy of Dust: Aesthetics in the Age of Entropy, [author name or "a sharp cultural critic" if unknown] delivers a razor-sharp, unflinching examination of how late-stage civilization has turned decay into its most seductive art form.As systems accelerate beyond human control and agency fades, beauty no longer celebrates life or transcendence-it eroticizes disappearance. From the cracked marble of crumbling empires to the glitchy artifacts of digital decay, we have learned to find elegance in entropy itself.This book maps the phenomenon with clinical precision and occasional devastating aphorism. It traces: - The death of the human viewer, as images optimize for algorithms and drones rather than eyes- The commodification of ruin-from 18th-century picturesque decay to modern "ruin porn" in Detroit, Chernobyl, and abandoned malls- The fetishization of glitch, patina, and pre-distressed luxury as simulations of time in a future we no longer trust- Brutalism's raw exposure, the sublime stripped of redemption in vast AI-generated or cosmic desolation- Autonomous art that loops between machines, with no audience required- The erotics of disappearance in climate grief, apocalypse chic, and extinction imageryStructured as a taxonomy, the final section classifies late-stage beauty into categories of dust: - Structural Dust (skeletons of infrastructure and cities)- Digital Dust (data rot and corrupted media)- Biological Dust (bone fields and vanishing species)- Temporal Dust (nostalgia loops and retro-futurism)- Simulated Dust (engineered aging and artificial wear)Provocative yet restrained, the book avoids easy moralizing to ask harder questions: Is our obsession with entropy self-awareness or surrender? Can vitality still compete with the allure of collapse? If humanity's final artwork is its own elegant dissolution, is that tragedy-or perfect coherence?"Dust is what remains when intention exhausts itself."For readers of cultural theory, systems thinking, art criticism, and speculative philosophy-anyone drawn to the dark glamour of a civilization polishing its own ruins-this is essential, haunting reading. Ideal for those who suspect beauty has quietly changed sides. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if life isn't a special substance, a program, or a machine with a designer-but a self-sustaining loop that runs without anyone in charge?In Life Without a Manager, readers are taken on a radical yet lucid journey from the chemistry of a single bacterium to the stubborn inertia of bureaucracies, from bacterial chemotaxis to human consciousness, and from ancient Buddhist insights to the future of artificial intelligence.Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, this book presents autopoiesis-the idea that a living system is defined by a network of processes that continuously produce and maintain the very components (and boundary) that allow those processes to continue. No external blueprint. No supervising intelligence. Just an organizational loop that either keeps running or collapses into death.Along the way, the book dismantles many comfortable assumptions: - Life is not "in" the DNA, the membrane, or any single part-it exists in the relations that keep remaking themselves.- Cognition begins with bacteria, not brains: every living system makes sense of its world according to what sustains (or threatens) its own continuation.- The self is not a thing you have; it is something you do-a fragile, history-dependent maintenance process.- Institutions, legal systems, and economies behave like autopoietic unities: they reproduce themselves through communications, often at the expense of the people inside them.- Today's most powerful AI is extraordinarily capable-but not alive. It lacks the closed production loop that defines even the simplest cell.Written in clear, compelling prose that moves effortlessly between microbiology, philosophy, sociology, and speculative futures, this book is both an intellectual adventure and a quiet revolution in how we understand ourselves, our societies, and the machines we build.If you've ever wondered why living things feel different from everything else, why organizations resist change, why meaning seems both fragile and real, or whether AI could ever truly be "alive," Life Without a Manager offers the most precise and far-reaching answer available today.No manager required. The loop has been running for four billion years. We're just beginning to understand how. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. For more than two thousand years, philosophers have wrestled with the problem of induction: we cannot logically prove that the future will resemble the past, yet every prediction we make - from sunrise tomorrow to the next bridge holding our weight - depends on exactly that assumption. Hume showed the justification is circular. Popper, pragmatists, and statisticians offered patches. None sealed the leak.Then, in the 1960s, Ray Solomonoff discovered something astonishing: there is a mathematically optimal way to generalize from evidence, one that no other method can systematically beat across all computable worlds. It requires no special assumptions about nature, only that the processes generating our observations are computable (as far as physics has ever shown). The trick? Treat every possible explanation as a computer program, and weight them by how short they are. Shorter programs - simpler explanations - receive exponentially higher prior probability. Prediction becomes Bayesian updating over this universal prior. The result is Solomonoff induction: the formal vindication of Occam's Razor as a theorem, not a heuristic.This is not just abstract philosophy. It collapses prediction, compression, and understanding into one operation. Intelligence - whether in a bacterium, a child, a scientist, or a large language model - turns out to be the search for short descriptions of complex phenomena. The shortest explanation really does win, and the mathematics tells us exactly why.Written with clarity and intellectual drama, The Shortest Explanation Wins traces the history of the induction problem from Hume and Goodman through information theory and computation to Solomonoff's quiet revolution. It explains - without equations - why statistics isn't enough, why priors cannot be arbitrary, why deep learning works when it does, and what the uncomputable ideal reveals about the limits of knowledge itself.If you have ever wondered why simplicity predicts better than complexity, why science converges, or what intelligence fundamentally is, this book offers the deepest, most principled answer yet discovered.For readers of Hume, Jaynes, Hofstadter, Wolfram, Tegmark, and anyone who wants to understand the logic beneath rational thought - and beneath intelligence itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - For more than two thousand years, philosophers have wrestled with the problem of induction: we cannot logically prove that the future will resemble the past, yet every prediction we make - from sunrise tomorrow to the next bridge holding our weight - depends on exactly that assumption. Hume showed the justification is circular. Popper, pragmatists, and statisticians offered patches. None sealed the leak.Then, in the 1960s, Ray Solomonoff discovered something astonishing: there is a mathematically optimal way to generalize from evidence, one that no other method can systematically beat across all computable worlds. It requires no special assumptions about nature, only that the processes generating our observations are computable (as far as physics has ever shown). The trick Treat every possible explanation as a computer program, and weight them by how short they are. Shorter programs - simpler explanations - receive exponentially higher prior probability. Prediction becomes Bayesian updating over this universal prior. The result is Solomonoff induction: the formal vindication of Occam's Razor as a theorem, not a heuristic.This is not just abstract philosophy. It collapses prediction, compression, and understanding into one operation. Intelligence - whether in a bacterium, a child, a scientist, or a large language model - turns out to be the search for short descriptions of complex phenomena. The shortest explanation really does win, and the mathematics tells us exactly why.Written with clarity and intellectual drama, The Shortest Explanation Wins traces the history of the induction problem from Hume and Goodman through information theory and computation to Solomonoff's quiet revolution. It explains - without equations - why statistics isn't enough, why priors cannot be arbitrary, why deep learning works when it does, and what the uncomputable ideal reveals about the limits of knowledge itself.If you have ever wondered why simplicity predicts better than complexity, why science converges, or what intelligence fundamentally is, this book offers the deepest, most principled answer yet discovered.For readers of Hume, Jaynes, Hofstadter, Wolfram, Tegmark, and anyone who wants to understand the logic beneath rational thought - and beneath intelligence itself.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Taxonomy of Dust | Aesthetics in the Age of Entropy | Nbm House | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798224045730 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Life Without a Manager | Autopoiesis from Cells to Civilizations | Nbm House | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798232010379 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Shortest Explanation Wins | Solomonoff Induction and the Logic Beneath Intelligence | Nbm House | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798233272066 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…