Who Wrote the Book of Life?

Lily E Kay

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• This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of... Lees meer

Fetal Positions

Karen Newman

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• This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporar... Lees meer

Studying Those Who Study Us

Diana E Forsythe

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• Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume c... Lees meer

Irresistible Dictation

Steven Meyer

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• Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in both the leading psycho... Lees meer

Solomon's Child

William T Lynch

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• This book challenges the accepted view of the early Royal Society of London that holds that its fellows did not seriously attempt to implement Francis... Lees meer

Observations on Modernity

Niklas Luhmann

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• This collection of five essays by Germany's most prominent and influential social thinker both links Luhmann's social theory to the question "What is ... Lees meer

Relays

Bernhard Siegert

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• This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature--namely, the postal system--determined how literature was pr... Lees meer

Picture Control

Nicolas Rasmussen

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• Two major questions motivate this study: How do new devices get taken up as experimental systems by scientists? How does the adoption of new instrumen... Lees meer

Mapping Benjamin

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• Since its publication in 1936, Walter Benjamin's "Artwork" essay has become a canonical text about the status and place of the fine arts in modern mas... Lees meer

Problems of Form

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• Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of so... Lees meer

Bootstrapping

Thierry Bardini

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• Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking wo... Lees meer

Cinematograph of Words

Flora Süssekind

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• This is an extraordinarily imaginative attempt to analyze the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. The ... Lees meer

The Disunity of Science

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• Is science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, a... Lees meer

The Einstein Tower

Klaus Hentschel

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• This book focuses on the "Einstein Tower," an architecturally historic observatory built in Potsdam in 1920 to allow the German astronomer Erwin Finla... Lees meer

Gramophone, Film, Typewriter

Friedrich A Kittler

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• Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel w... Lees meer

Dance Pathologies

Felicia McCarren

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• A history of dance's pathologization may startle readers who find in dance performance grace, discipline, geometry, poetry, and the body's transcenden... Lees meer

Science on Stage

Stephen Hilgartner

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• Behind the headlines of our time stands an unobtrusive army of science advisors. Panels of scientific, medical, and engineering experts evaluate the s... Lees meer

Toward a History of Epistemic Things

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

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• In this powerful work of conceptual and analytical originality, the author argues for the primacy of the material arrangements of the laboratory in th... Lees meer

On Beyond Living

Richard Doyle

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• What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent ... Lees meer

Sciences of the Flesh

Dianne F Sadoff

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• "Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the twentieth century," Freud said late in his career, "but it did not drop from the skies ready-made... Lees meer

Six Stories from the End of Representation

James Elkins

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• James Elkins has shaped the discussion about how we--as artists, as art historians, or as outsiders--view art. He has not only revolutionized our thin... Lees meer

Problems of Form

• Hardcover | Engels | Writing Science
• Sociology has long sought to find out how acting in a situation and observing that situation may differ and nevertheless belong to a single kind of so... Lees meer

Sciences of the Flesh

Dianne F Sadoff

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• "Psychoanalysis may be said to have been born in the twentieth century," Freud said late in his career, "but it did not drop from the skies ready-made... Lees meer

On Beyond Living

Richard Doyle

• Paperback | Engels | Writing Science
• What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent ... Lees meer