Rendering Life Molecular

Author : Natasha Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082237563X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rendering Life Molecular written by Natasha Myers and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly substances visible, tangible, and workable is a challenging task, one that is not readily automated, even by the fastest computers. Natasha Myers explores what protein modelers must do to render three-dimensional, atomic-resolution models of these lively materials. Rendering Life Molecular shows that protein models are not just informed by scientific data: model building entangles a modeler’s entire sensorium, and modelers must learn to feel their way through the data in order to interpret molecular forms. Myers takes us into protein modeling laboratories and classrooms, tracking how gesture, affect, imagination, and intuition shape practices of objectivity. Asking, ‘What is life becoming in modelers' hands?’ she tunes into the ways they animate molecules through their moving bodies and other media. In the process she amplifies an otherwise muted liveliness inflecting mechanistic accounts of the stuff of life.

Author : Suzanne Anker
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839468051
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultures of Entanglement written by Suzanne Anker and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?

Author : Lindsay Kelley
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262374722
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Eating written by Lindsay Kelley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of food, ingestion, and digestion in the emerging field of the metabolic arts. Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, After Eating claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an artist-centered approach to nutrition, Lindsay Kelley cultivates a neglected middle ground between the everyday and the scientific, using metabolism as a lens through which to read and write about art. Divided into two parts and full of playful chapter titles such as “Food Babies” and “Poop Circus,” After Eating investigates multiple facets of the sociocultural implications of body image and body process in body art from the 1970s to the present. By engaging the notion of “after” as an artistic homage or tribute, metabolism moves beyond the cell to transform into a method for responding to the most difficult cultural, philosophical, and political challenges of the contemporary moment. Metabolic reading rethinks feminist, queer, bioart, installation, and performance projects, providing artists, students, and teachers with new pathways into art theory.

Author : Christopher Long
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000442802
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Molecularisation of Security written by Christopher Long and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the way that the molecular sciences are shaping contemporary security practices in relation to the governance of biological threats. In response to biological threats, such as pandemics and bioterrorism, governments around the world have developed a range of new security technologies, called medical countermeasures, to protect their populations. This book argues that the molecular sciences’ influence has been so great that security practices have been molecularised. Focusing on the actions of international organisations and governments in the past two decades, this book identifies two contrasting conceptions of the nature or inherent workings of molecular life as driving this turn. On the one hand, political notions of insecurity have been shaped by the contingent or random nature of molecular life. On the other, the identification of molecular life’s constant biological dynamics supports and makes possible the development and stockpiling of effective medical countermeasures. This study is one of the few to take seriously the conceptual implications that the detailed empirical workings of biotechnology have on security practices today. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies, bio-politics, life sciences, global governance, and International Relations in general.

Author : Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023848
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virus Touch written by Bishnupriya Ghosh and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific, artistic, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological, social, and ecological catastrophes, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral mutations. Studying how epidemic media inscribe, store, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the anthropogenic drivers of pathogenicity like deforestation or illegal wildlife trading and the vulnerabilities accruing from diseases that arise from socioeconomic inequities and biopolitical neglect.

Author : Natalie Loveless
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772125040
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowings and Knots written by Natalie Loveless and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowings and Knots presents a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the methodology of research-creation and asks how those who make knowledge think about and value it. Not just a method but a site of ongoing experimentation around what counts as knowledge, research-creation is a meeting place of academia, artistic creation, and the wider public. The contributors argue that academic institutions and funders must recognize research-creation as innovative knowledge-making that leaps over the traditional splitting of theory from practice while considering how gender/feminist studies, Indigenous practices, and new materialism might inform and develop the conversation. Through this book, readers can transform the way they experience both art and education. Contributors: Carolina Cambre, Owen Chapman, Paul Couillard, T.L. Cowan, John Cussans, Randy Lee Cutler, Petra Hroch, Rachelle Viader Knowles, Natalie Loveless, Glen Lowry, Erin Manning, Sourayan Mookerjea, Natasha Myers, Simon Pope, Stephanie Springgay, Sarah E. Truman

Author : Robert S. Emmett
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262036762
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Humanities written by Robert S. Emmett and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research, concrete examples, and case studies. Robert Emmett and David Nye show how humanists, by offering constructive knowledge as well as negative critique, can improve our understanding of such environmental problems as global warming, species extinction, and over-consumption of the earth's resources. They trace the genealogy of environmental humanities from European, Australian, and American initiatives, also showing its cross-pollination by postcolonial and feminist theories. Emmett and Nye consider a concept of place not synonymous with localism, the risks of ecotourism, and the cultivation of wild areas. They discuss the decoupling of energy use and progress, and point to OECD countries for examples of sustainable development. They explain the potential for science to do both good and harm, examine dark visions of planetary collapse, and describe more positive possibilities—alternative practices, including localization and degrowth. Finally, they examine the theoretical impact of new materialism, feminism, postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and queer ecology on the environmental humanities.

Author : Rachael Wakefield-Rann
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811651760
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Indoors written by Rachael Wakefield-Rann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely and expansive book, Wakefield-Rann investigates how emerging disease ecologies are undermining definitions of health and immunity that have persisted since the 19th century, and had a formative influence over the design of not only homes, but entire cities. This wide-ranging account traces the links between the history of medicine, modernist design and architecture, the rise of inflammatory disease, the microbiomes of buildings and humans, antimicrobial resistance, and novel chemical pollutants, to show how indoor environments have made us as we have made them. In highlighting the processes that have been missed in designing perfectly controlled interior habitats, Life Indoors shows the limitations of dominant practices, classifications and philosophies to apprehend current indoor pathogen ecologies.

Author : Christian Delage
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474445845
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and New Media written by Christian Delage and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International specialists from law, media, film and virtual studies address the jurist in the era of digital transmission. From the cinema of the early 20th century to social media, this volume explores the multiple intersections of these visual technologies and the law.

Author : Anne Marie Champagne
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529211573
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Body written by Anne Marie Champagne and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals’ “handling” of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.