Representation in scientific practice revisited /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Description:ix, 366 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Inside technology
Inside technology.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10079061
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Other authors / contributors:Coopmans, Catelijne, 1976- editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780262525381 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262525380 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited
  • Chapters
  • 2. Drawing as: Distinctions and Disambiguation in Digital Images of Mars
  • 3. Visual Analytics as Artful Revelation
  • 4. Digital Scientific Visuals as Fields for Interaction
  • 5. Swimming in the Joint
  • 6. Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research
  • 7. Networked Neuroscience: Brain Scans and Visual Knowing at the Intersection of Atlases and Databases
  • 8. Rendering Machinic Life
  • 9. Nanoimages as Hybrid Monsters
  • 10. Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision
  • 11. Essential Tensions and Representational Strategies
  • 12. In Images We Trust? Representation and Objectivity in the Digital Age
  • 13. Legitimizing Napkin Drawing: The Curious Dispersion of Laffer Curves, 1978-2008
  • 14. How (Not) to Do Things with Brain Images
  • Reflections
  • 15. Preface
  • 16. Beyond Representation
  • 17. Representation in Formation
  • 18. Struggles with Representation: Could It Be Otherwise?
  • 19. Reconfiguring Practices
  • 20. Indistinct Perception
  • 21. A Question of Trust: Old Issues and New Technologies
  • 22. The More Manipulations, the Better
  • Contributors
  • Index