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Rendering Life Molecular
Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
Taschenbuch von Natasha Myers
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Natasha Myers
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 334
ISBN-13: 9780822358787
ISBN-10: 0822358786
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Myers, Natasha
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Natasha Myers
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,485 kg
preigu-id: 105059334
Über den Autor
Natasha Myers
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 334
ISBN-13: 9780822358787
ISBN-10: 0822358786
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Myers, Natasha
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Natasha Myers
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,485 kg
preigu-id: 105059334
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