01157nam a22001577a 4500 514452 514452 201102b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Sliver, Sean 20818 The emergence of texture Journal of the History of Ideas 81(2), Apr, 2020: p.169-194 Crucial to accounts of complexity is the history of the concept of emergence. Pride of place is generally given to G. E. Lewes, who in 1879 offered a theory of “emergents,” of the unpredictable and incommensurate effects which follow from the crossing of causes. This essay recovers an earlier tradition; it focuses on experiments in seventeenth-century materials science, which explain emergent properties through an appeal to microstructural “texture.” A full appreciation of the modern turn to complexity, of our own ecological embeddeness and the interrelationship of things, requires therefore a return to the warp and weft of seventeenth-century artisanal practice.- Reproduced Alina Szczesniak, Emergence, Food Science, Weaving 20819 Journal of the History of Ideas COMPLEXITY AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 388458 IIPA IIPA 2020-11-02 81(2), Apr, 2020: p.169-194 AR123454 2020-11-02 AR