The scientific imaginary in visual culture / / Anneke Smelik (ed.).
Popular media, art and science are intricately interlinked in contemporary visual culture. This book analyses the ›scientific imaginary‹ that is the result of the profound effects of science upon the imagination, and conversely, of the imagination in and upon science. As scientific developments in g...
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| Superior document: | Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2021] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (199 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - The scientific imaginary in visual culture
- Part I. History and philosophy
- How to depict life: a short history of the imagination of human interiority
- Reflecting imaginaries: science and society in the movies
- Reappraising futurist mechanical art
- Philosophical interlude
- the posthuman predicament
- Part II. Media
- Cinematic fantasies of becoming-cyborg
- Video ergo sum: video art as symbolic form
- Enactive media: a dialogue between psychology and art
- The positive potential of IVF in visual culture
- Part III. Bioart
- Our cells/Our selves: sexual politics in bioart
- Exploring mixed realities and scientific visualisations in art/science collaborations
- Knit two together: 'Art/Science collaborations' in bioHome. The chromosome knitting project
- On the contributors