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100			_aSliver, Sean _920818
245			_aThe emergence of texture
260			_aJournal of the History of Ideas
300			_a81(2), Apr, 2020: p.169-194
520			_aCrucial 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
650			_aAlina Szczesniak, Emergence, Food Science, Weaving _920819
773			_aJournal of the History of Ideas
906			_aCOMPLEXITY
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