商品描述
An illuminating and wide-ranging edited collection on the life and career of John C. Lilly across disciplines, from animal studies to the history of architecture. John C. Lilly (1915-2001) was a neurophysiologist who had one of the most unusual careers in twentieth-century science: He theorized extraterrestrial language and intelligence, wrote quasi-philosophical treatises about computer science and consciousness, self-experimented with LSD and ketamine, and developed the first sensory deprivation tank (which he later used for scientific tripping). Most famously, he worked with dolphins, trying to understand their forms of communication and to teach them to speak English, later aiming to mediate human and dolphin communication via computers.
Submersion, edited by Hannah Zeavin and Jeffrey Mathias, brings together scholars from a wide variety of disciplines--from animal studies to the history of the human sciences, from the history of architecture to feminist science and technology studies--to reevaluate Lilly's life and career within his own moment and from our vantage point in ours. Ever relevant, Lilly's work illuminates twentieth-century cultural and scientific phenomena ranging from cybernetics to the human potential movement. And his midcentury prominence as a neurophysiologist further makes him crucial to--albeit understudied within--the history of Cold War science and technology.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一部內容啟發性十足且廣泛多元的論文集，跨越從動物研究到建築史等不同領域，探討 John C. Lilly 的一生與職業生涯。
John C. Lilly（1915–2001）是一位神經生理學家，擁有二十世紀科學界最為非比尋常的職業生涯之一：他提出關於外星語言與智慧的理論，撰寫有關電腦科學與意識的準哲學論著，親自以 LSD 和 ketamine 進行實驗，並開發出第一座感官剝奪艙（之後更將其用於科學性的迷幻體驗）。最為人熟知的是，他曾研究海豚，試圖理解牠們的溝通形式，並教導牠們說英語；後來，他更以電腦為媒介，致力於促成人類與海豚之間的溝通。
由 Hannah Zeavin 與 Jeffrey Mathias 編輯的《Submersion》，匯集了來自各種學科的學者——從動物研究到人類科學史，從建築史到女性主義科學與技術研究——重新評估 Lilly 的一生與職業生涯：一方面置於他所處的時代脈絡中理解，另一方面也從我們當代的視角重新審視。Lilly 的研究至今仍與我們息息相關，並闡明了從控制論到人類潛能運動等各種二十世紀的文化與科學現象。此外，他在二十世紀中葉作為神經生理學家的重要地位，也使他成為冷戰科學與技術史中不可或缺、卻至今研究不足的人物。
作者簡介
Hannah Zeavin is Associate Professor of the History of Science in the Department of History and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. She is the author of
The Distance Cure and
Mother Media (MIT Press) and Founding Editor of
Parapraxis. In 2021, she cofounded the Psychosocial Foundation.
Jeffrey Mathias is a writer, psychoanalyst, and historian of science. His writing has appeared in journals such as
Isis and
Parapraxis.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Hannah Zeavin 是 UC Berkeley 歷史系與 Berkeley Center for New Media 的科學史副教授。她著有《The Distance Cure》和《Mother Media》（MIT Press 出版），並擔任《Parapraxis》的創刊編輯。2021 年，她共同創立了 Psychosocial Foundation。
Jeffrey Mathias 是作家、精神分析師與科學史家。他的文章曾刊登於《Isis》和《Parapraxis》等期刊。
