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Molecular Aesthetics

Author : Peter Weibel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262018780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Aesthetics written by Peter Weibel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists and artists explore links between current developments in molecular science and the visual arts. Thanks to advances in molecular science and microscopy, we can visualize matter on a nanoscale, and structures not visible to the naked eye can be visualized and characterized. The fact that technology allows us to transcend the limits of natural perception and see what was previously unseeable creates a new dimension of aesthetic experience and practice: molecular aesthetics. This book, drawing on an exhibit and symposium at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, documents aesthetic developments in what Félix Guattari called the “molecular revolution.” Just as artists in the Bauhaus movement began to use such industrial materials as metal, Plexiglas, and alloys as raw materials, artists today have access to new realms of the molecular and nano. The industrial aesthetic of machinery and material has been transformed into an aesthetic of media and molecules. Molecular Aesthetics suggests ways in which art can draw inspiration from the molecular sciences—and ways in which science can use art to make experimental results more intelligible and comprehensible. The authors of the essays collected in the book discuss the creation of molecules of remarkable beauty and the functional properties that stem from a few geometrical principles of molecular design; address the history of molecular structure representation; examine the meaning of molecular aesthetics for scientists; and compare chemical structures to artworks.

Beauty in Chemistry

Author : Luigi Fabbrizzi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642283411
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Beauty in Chemistry written by Luigi Fabbrizzi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beauty of Chemistry in the Words of Writers and in the Hands of Scientists, by Margherita Venturi, Enrico Marchi und Vincenzo Balzani Living in a Cage Is a Restricted Privilege, by Luigi Fabbrizzi Inner and Outer Beauty, by Kenneth N. Raymond und Casey J. Brown The Mechanical Bond: A Work of Art, by Carson J. Bruns und J. Fraser Stoddart The Beauty of Knots at the Molecular Level, by Jean-Pierre Sauvage und David B. Amabilino

The Molecular Gaze

Author : Suzanne Anker
Publisher : CSHL Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879696979
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Molecular Gaze written by Suzanne Anker and published by CSHL Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And they suggest the ways in which DNA representations relate to archetypal images that have appeared throughout the history of art."--BOOK JACKET.

The Taste of Art

Author : Silvia Bottinelli
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682260259
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Taste of Art written by Silvia Bottinelli and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art’s historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ideas through food in a variety of scenarios. Beginning from a focus on the body and subjectivity, the authors zoom out to look at the domestic sphere, and finally the public sphere. Here are essays that study a range of artists including, among others, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Al Ruppersberg, Alison Knowles, Martha Rosler, Robin Weltsch, Vicki Hodgetts, Paul McCarthy, Luciano Fabro, Carries Mae Weems, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Janine Antoni, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Liza Lou, Tom Marioni, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michael Rakowitz, and Natalie Jeremijenko.

Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry

Author : Jeffrey Kovac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199912580
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry written by Jeffrey Kovac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann's contributions to chemistry are well known. Less well known, however, is that over a career that spans nearly fifty years, Hoffmann has thought and written extensively about a wide variety of other topics, such as chemistry's relationship to philosophy, literature, and the arts, including the nature of chemical reasoning, the role of symbolism and writing in science, and the relationship between art and craft and science. In Roald Hoffmann on the Philosophy, Art, and Science of Chemistry, Jeffrey Kovac and Michael Weisberg bring together twenty-eight of Hoffmann's most important essays. Gathered here are Hoffmann's most philosophically significant and interesting essays and lectures, many of which are not widely accessible. In essays such as "Why Buy That Theory," "Nearly Circular Reasoning," "How Should Chemists Think," "The Metaphor, Unchained," "Art in Science," and "Molecular Beauty," we find the mature reflections of one of America's leading scientists. Organized under the general headings of Chemical Reasoning and Explanation, Writing and Communicating, Art and Science, Education, and Ethics, these stimulating essays provide invaluable insight into the teaching and practice of science.

Molecular Aesthetics

Author : Michelle Huang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Molecular Aesthetics written by Michelle Huang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular Aesthetics: Race, Form, and Matter in Contemporary Asian American Literature examines posthumanist aesthetics in post-1965 Asian American literature to trace racial formation at the molecular scale. In the wake of current ecological disaster and biotechnological fragmentation, a growing number of Asian American novelists, poets, and artists view the scientification of the world as a creative catalyst for imagining smaller and smaller dimensions of human existence. Yet a diametrically opposite inclination can be said to characterize Asian American literary critics, who have largely eschewed engaging with science due to the dark legacy of Enlightenment racial science that cast Asian Americans as fundamentally alien or inhuman. This project argues that fully grasping how these creative works denaturalize sedimented structures of racial knowledge and thinking requirescounterintuitively, perhapsredoubling critical engagement with scientific discourse. I term these literary experiments, which attenuate the boundaries of the human conceptually and formally, a molecular aesthetics. In conversation with Asian American literary studies, posthumanism, and science studies, Molecular Aesthetics considers works of speculative and science fiction, which explicitly engage with science and technology, as well as more traditional texts of Asian American literature where the import of a molecular reading practice is less self-evident. Focusing on texts that make visible microstructures of race shifts theoretical emphasis away from the individual subject to the persistence of racial forms and logics in the absence of recognizably raced bodies. Molecular Aesthetics foregrounds how the formal and aesthetic qualities of texts by authors such as Ruth Ozeki, Larissa Lai, Bhanu Kapil, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Perry Miyake, Julie Otsuka, John Yau, and Jeffrey Yang revise fundamental critical terms in Ethnic American literary analysis such as identity, agency, and race itself. Further, by deploying Asian American literary criticism as a powerful investigative tool for tracking evolving forms of racialization, this project is also an argument for the continuing value of Ethnic American literary studies in a so-called postracial era.

God and the Universe

Author : Arthur Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136365656
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book God and the Universe written by Arthur Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a publicity title in the light of the latest scientific discoveries Publication strongly supported by Jacques Derrida (who will provide endorsement for cover) and Martin Rees, astronomer royal Attractively illustrated throughout

Through the roadblocks

Author : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher : NeMe
ISBN 13 : 9963969534
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Through the roadblocks written by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and published by NeMe. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Denise Robinson, "Realities in raw motion" presents a selection of texts from the conference held on 23 - 25 November 2012at the Cyprus University of Technology.

Reflections on Poetry and the World

Author : Emily Grosholz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152756391X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on Poetry and the World written by Emily Grosholz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together 40 years of essays about poetry and literature written by Emily Grosholz. The first section includes essays about some of her favorite poets and thinkers in the United States, England, France and Germany. The second section brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics and practical deliberation, and the third considers it alongside science and imagination. The last section is an homage to The Hudson Review, for whom she has served as an Advisory Editor for many years. As a philosopher, Emily Grosholz has written and thought about feminism, racism, and mathematics and science, which has led her to admire all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry reorganized language and memory, eros and experience, and time and place, and how and why it deepens our understanding of life.

The Nature of the Mechanical Bond

Author : Carson J. Bruns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119044006
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of the Mechanical Bond written by Carson J. Bruns and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The story is told by THE inventor-pioneer-master in the field and is accompanied by amazing illustrations… [it] will become an absolute reference and a best seller in chemistry!” Alberto Credi “… the great opus on the mechanical bond. A most impressive undertaking!” Jean-Marie Lehn Congratulations to co-author J. Fraser Stoddart, a 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. In molecules, the mechanical bond is not shared between atoms—it is a bond that arises when molecular entities become entangled in space. Just as supermolecules are held together by supramolecular interactions, mechanomolecules, such as catenanes and rotaxanes, are maintained by mechanical bonds. This emergent bond endows mechanomolecules with a whole suite of novel properties relating to both form and function. They hold unlimited promise for countless applications, ranging from their presence in molecular devices and electronics to their involvement in remarkably advanced functional materials. The Nature of the Mechanical Bond is a comprehensive review of much of the contemporary literature on the mechanical bond, accessible to newcomers and veterans alike. Topics covered include: Supramolecular, covalent, and statistical approaches to the formation of entanglements that underpin mechanical bonds in molecules and macromolecules Kinetically and thermodynamically controlled strategies for synthesizing mechanomolecules Chemical topology, molecular architectures, polymers, crystals, and materials with mechanical bonds The stereochemistry of the mechanical bond (mechanostereochemistry), including the novel types of dynamic and static isomerism and chirality that emerge in mechanomolecules Artificial molecular switches and machines based on the large-amplitude translational and rotational motions expressed by suitably designed catenanes and rotaxanes. This contemporary and highly interdisciplinary field is summarized in a visually appealing, image-driven format, with more than 800 illustrations covering both fundamental and applied research. The Nature of the Mechanical Bond is a must-read for everyone, from students to experienced researchers, with an interest in chemistry’s latest and most non-canonical bond. Read the Preface

Tunnelling in Molecules

Author : Johannes Kästner
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 1839160381
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Tunnelling in Molecules written by Johannes Kästner and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum tunnelling is one of the strangest phenomena in chemistry, where we see the wave nature of atoms acting in “impossible” ways. By letting molecules pass through the kinetic barrier instead of over it, this effect can lead to chemical reactions even close to the absolute zero, to atypical spectroscopic observations, to bizarre selectivity, or to colossal isotopic effects. Quantum mechanical tunnelling observations might be infrequent in chemistry, but it permeates through all its disciplines producing remarkable chemical outcomes. For that reason, the 21st century has seen a great increase in theoretical and experimental findings involving molecular tunnelling effects, as well as in novel techniques that permit their accurate predictions and analysis. Including experimental, computational and theoretical chapters, from the physical and organic to the biochemistry fields, from the applied to the academic arenas, this new book provides a broad and conceptual perspective on tunnelling reactions and how to study them. Quantum Tunnelling in Molecules is the obligatory stop for both the specialist and those new to this world.

Ecosophical Aesthetics

Author : Patricia MacCormack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350026212
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ecosophical Aesthetics written by Patricia MacCormack and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the ecosophical writings of Felix Guattari, this book explores the many ways that aesthetics – in the forms of visual art, film, sculpture, painting, literature, and the screenplay – can act as catalysts, allowing us to see the world differently, beyond traditional modes of representation. This is in direct parallel to Guattari's own attempt to break down the 19th century Kantian dialectic between man, art, and world, in favour of a non-hierarchical, transversal approach, to produce a more ethical and ecologically sensitive world view. Each chapter author analyses artworks which critique capitalism's industrial devastation of the environment, while at the same time offering affirmative, imaginative futures suggested by art. Including contributions from philosophers, film theorists and artists, this book asks: How can we interact with the world in a non-dominant and non-destructive way? How can art catalyze new ethical relations with non-human entities and the environment? And, crucially, what part can philosophy play in rethinking these structures of interaction?

The Public Image of Chemistry

Author : Joachim Schummer
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812775854
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Public Image of Chemistry written by Joachim Schummer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into cells that are found throughout the body. This fundamental property of stem cells suggests that they can potentially be used to replace degenerative cells within the body, and regenerate the functional capacity of organ systems that have deteriorated because of disease or aging. This authoritative textbook provides an overview of the latest advances in the field of stem cell biology, spanning topics that include nuclear reprogramming, somatic cell cloning, and determinants of cell fate; embryonic stem cells for hematopoietic and pancreatic repair; adult stem cells for cardiovascular, neural, renal, and hepatic repair; and manufacturing of stem cells for clinical use.

Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences

Author : Peter Weingart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134175809
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Science Images and Popular Images of the Sciences written by Peter Weingart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a popular image of science and where does it come from? Little is known about the formation of science images and their transformation into popular images of science. In this anthology, contributions from two areas of expertise: image theory and history and the sociology of the sciences, explore techniques of constructing science images and transforming them into highly ambivalent images that represent the sciences. The essays, most of them with illustrations, present evidence that popular images of the sciences are based upon abstract theories rather than facts, and, equally, images of scientists are stimulated by imagination rather than historical knowledge.

Bioart Kitchen

Author : Lindsay Kelley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720000
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Bioart Kitchen written by Lindsay Kelley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating. 'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold, alternative approach. Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.

Metaphysics and Transcendence

Author : Arthur Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113435732X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics and Transcendence written by Arthur Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This author presents new metaphysics with a genealogy based on counter-intuition and locates counter-intuition and complexity at the foundations of truth. This book stimulates future philosophical and religious discussion.

The Posthuman Pandemic

Author : Saul Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350239089
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Posthuman Pandemic written by Saul Newman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the COVID-19 crisis forcing us to reflect in a dramatic way on the limits of the human and the implications of the Anthropocene Age, this timely volume addresses these concerns through an exploration of post-humanism as represented in philosophy, politics and aesthetics. Global pandemics bring into sharp focus the bankruptcy of the neoliberal economic paradigm, the future of the arts sector in society, and our dependence upon political forces outside our control. In response to the recent state of emergency, The Posthuman Pandemic highlights the urgent need to rethink our anthropocentrism and develop new political models, aesthetic practices and ways of living. Central to these discussions is the idea of post-humanism, a philosophy that can help us grapple with the crisis, as it takes seriously the unstable ecosystems on which we depend and the precarious nature of our long-cherished notions of agency and sovereignty. Bringing together international philosophers, political theorists and media and art theorists, all of whom engage with the posthuman, this volume explores a range of vital subjects, from the inequality revealed by COVID-19 survival rates to museums' role in spreading human-centric understandings of a world struck by human fragility. Facing up to the realities that the coronavirus outbreak has uncovered, The Posthuman Pandemic combines both breadth and depth of analysis to take on the posthuman challenges confronting us today.