Myers Rendering Life Molecular

Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7563-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

Natasha Myers shows in this ethnography how scientists who build three-dimensional models of proteins use their senses and bodies to create, represent, and evaluate otherwise imperceptible molecules. These modelers often consider matter to be made up of living, moving, and sometimes breathing entities, and Myers' study of them rethinks the objectivity of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myers, Natasha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Part One. Laboratory Entanglements

1. Crystallographic Renderings 35

2. Tangible Media 74

3. Molecular Embodiments 99

Part Two. Ontics and Epistemics

4. Rending Representation 121

5. Remodeling Objectivity 136

Part Three. Forms of Life

6. Machinic Life 159

7. Lively Machines 182

8. Molecular Calisthenics 204

Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming? 230

Appendix: A Protein Primer 239

Notes 243

Bibliography 277

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Natasha Myers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University.