James Wilkes,Sophie K Scott
James Wilkes
Dialogues and collaborations between scientists and non-scientists are now widely understood as important elements of scientific research and public engagement with science. In recognition of this, the authors, a neuroscientist and a poet, ...
Stimulating Music: The Pleasures and Dangers of "Electric Music," 1750-1900 [0.03%]
刺激的音乐：1750—1900年的“电之乐”及其利弊
James Kennaway
James Kennaway
Far from being a purely modern idea, the notion of "electric music" was already common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The shift in thinking about music from cosmic harmony to nervous stimulation made metaphors and speculative t...
Deciphering the language of nature: cryptography, secrecy, and alterity in Francis Bacon [0.03%]
解读自然的语言——弗朗西斯·培根论密码、隐秘与他者性
Michael C Clody
Michael C Clody
The essay argues that Francis Bacon's considerations of parables and cryptography reflect larger interpretative concerns of his natural philosophic project. Bacon describes nature as having a language distinct from those of God and man, and...
Hannah Rogers
Hannah Rogers
The science studies literatures on amateurs and citizen science have remained largely unconnected despite similarities between the two categories. The essay connects amateur knowledge and citizen science through examples from public art. Th...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as mirror and portrait: MRI configurations between science and the arts [0.03%]
磁共振成像(MRI)作为镜子和肖像：科学与艺术之间的磁共振成像配置
Silvia Casini
Silvia Casini
The essay examines the configuration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the scientific laboratory and in selected artworks. By drawing upon fieldwork undertaken in MRI labs and artists' ateliers, I argue that MRI has a "look" in the sam...
Raymond Malewitz
Raymond Malewitz
Contemporary culture views DNA through a strange temporal logic: on the one hand, technologies of DNA identification and sequencing testify to fundamental transformations in the way we understand biology, anthropology, law, and medicine—we...
Ricardo Roque
Ricardo Roque
The essay explores the hypothesis of colonial collecting processes involving the active addition of the colonial context and historical past to museum objects through the production of short stories. It examines the emergent historicity of ...
Barbara Wittmann
Barbara Wittmann
This essay deals with the special case of drawings as psychoanalytical instruments. It aims at a theoretical understanding of the specific contribution made by children's drawings as a medium of the psychical. In the influential play techni...
Innovation and stasis: technology and race in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson [0.03%]
创新与停滞：马克·吐温的小说《PUDD'NHEAD WILSON》中的科技与种族问题
Cynthia A Current
Cynthia A Current
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson demonstrates how technologies of identification attempt to counter how bodies evolve beyond previous constraints—in particular, the constraints of racial classification. Twain develops accounts of subjectivit...
Mechanized metrics: from verse science to laboratory prosody, 1880-1918 [0.03%]
机械化的韵律测定法：从诗的科学到实验室韵律学（1880—1918）
Jason David Hall
Jason David Hall
From roughly the 1880s on, a methodical verse "science" was beginning to assert itself. Gripped by the thought of articulating an objective, fact-based metrics, poetry scientists brought to bear on the traditional verse-line principles of o...