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How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy (review) 我是如何成为一棵树的苏曼娜·罗伊(书评)
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.0006
X. Chacko, Sushmita Chatterjee, Laura A. Foster, Brian Sabel, Sam Smiley, Banu Subramaniam
for fiction” (221). The material Keiser gathers here is interesting, but the arguments about hypochondria lose focus. One of the most ambitious moments of Nervous Fictions comes in the introduction when Keiser sees his nervous fictions as foundational in Cartesian dualism. His argument is subtle and, to my mind, deserves more attention in the book: Keiser contends that Descartes massages the difference between the pineal gland—an identifiable organ—and the mind through analogy. The pineal gland is the theater for the soul, but shares with the mind the quality of singularity. They are like each other, and through this quick-footed move, Descartes opens up the possibility of the mind itself as an internal theater—a metaphor that captures the imagination of countless writers and thinkers following him. With the publication of Nervous Fiction, Kesier joins and advances an important conversation of established scholars navigating what science could and could not do and also what it meant and how it meant. Nervous Fictions promises to chart new intellectual territory in how we understand the relationship between literature and science in the period—it is at once a relation of influence as well as mutual constitution.
小说”(221)。凯泽在这里收集的材料很有趣,但关于疑病症的争论却失去了焦点。《神经小说》最雄心勃勃的时刻之一出现在引言中,凯泽将他的神经小说视为笛卡尔二元论的基础。他的论点很微妙,在我看来,这本书值得更多关注:凯泽认为笛卡尔通过类比来处理松果体(一个可识别的器官)和大脑之间的差异。松果体是灵魂的剧场,但与心灵共享奇点的品质。他们彼此相似,通过这一快速的行动,笛卡尔打开了心灵本身作为一个内部剧场的可能性——这个隐喻抓住了无数追随他的作家和思想家的想象力。随着《神经小说》的出版,Kesier加入并推进了一场重要的对话,既有学者探讨科学能做什么,不能做什么,它意味着什么以及它的意义。紧张小说有望为我们理解这一时期文学与科学之间的关系开辟新的知识领域——这既是一种影响关系,也是一种相互构成的关系。
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Reading Omens in the Escape of Genetically Engineered Dinosaurs, 1970s–1990s 20世纪70年代至90年代,基因工程恐龙逃逸的预兆
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-30 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.0001
Victor Monnin
ABSTRACT:The catastrophic scenario of Jurassic Park is known worldwide and across generations, thanks to two movie trilogies, as well as countless video games, toys, and other derived products inspired by Michael Crichton's 1990 novel. Despite Jurassic Park's originality, stories of genetically engineered dinosaurs on the loose made their debut during the 1970s, when genetic technologies, such as recombinant DNA, were being developed. This article retraces, through a series of examples, the rise of a now classic narrative featuring genetically engineered dinosaurs escaping their creators, from the mid 1970s to the early 1990s. The succeeding variations around this narrative eventually forged a powerful, long-lasting cultural device processing anxieties into entertainment by fictionally predicting the consequences of genetic technologies. The deep past and dinosaurs were fashioned into a screen on which the public learned to read omens about the technological future and the end of a traditional distinction between natural and artificial.
摘要:《侏罗纪公园》的灾难性场景因两部电影三部曲以及无数受迈克尔·克莱顿1990年小说启发的电子游戏、玩具和其他衍生产品而闻名于世,代代相传。尽管《侏罗纪公园》具有独创性,但在20世纪70年代,基因工程恐龙的故事首次出现,当时正在开发重组DNA等基因技术。这篇文章通过一系列例子追溯了从20世纪70年代中期到90年代初,一种以基因工程恐龙逃离创造者为特征的经典叙事的兴起。围绕这一叙事的后续变化最终形成了一种强大、持久的文化手段,通过虚构地预测基因技术的后果,将焦虑转化为娱乐。深刻的过去和恐龙被塑造成一个屏幕,公众在屏幕上学会解读技术未来的预兆,以及自然和人工之间传统区别的终结。
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Video Games and American Culture: How Ideology Influences Virtual Worlds by Aaron A. Toscano (review) 电子游戏与美国文化:意识形态如何影响虚拟世界
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899695
Mark T. DiMauro
their case studies are West-centered (p. 240) and critically consider the fact that they had limited exchange of ideas with others. How would such a conversation change the concept of the laboratory and its meaning? Who would (and should) it include? In conclusion, the strength and innovation of The Lab Book lie in its exploration of new, “hybrid” laboratories. Its value will have to be measured by whether the methodology it offers is used in further robust analyses. The Lab Book offers a site-specific heuristic to be discussed, developed, and challenged. The six categories it systematically tests with examples make it an important basic literature for future laboratory studies. The call for an understanding of laboratories that goes beyond space, equipment, and technology is highly stimulating.
他们的案例研究以西方为中心(第240页),并批判性地考虑到他们与他人的思想交流有限的事实。这样的对话将如何改变实验室的概念及其意义?谁会(也应该)参与其中?总之,《实验室书》的优势和创新在于它对新型“混合”实验室的探索。它的价值必须通过它提供的方法是否被用于进一步的可靠分析来衡量。本实验书提供了一个站点特定的启发式,供讨论、发展和挑战。通过实例系统检验了六个范畴,是今后实验室研究的重要基础文献。对实验室的理解超越了空间、设备和技术的要求是非常令人振奋的。
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Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex by Timothy Wientzen (review) 《自动:文学现代主义与反射政治》蒂莫西·温岑(书评)
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899693
M. Paterson
Central to Timothy Wientzen’s fascinating, lively, and flawed book is the split he identifies in modernist literature and art between, on the one hand, the discoveries of patterns, grooves, and the habits of organisms observed in John B. Watson’s laboratory in the United States and Ivan Pavlov’s laboratory in Russia, and, on the other hand, the drive to overcome any such programmatic physiological base within an organism through the artistic drive for creativity and experimentation with form. This split is characteristic in itself of modernity, of course, a dichotomy Wientzen identifies at one point as being between the “radical newness in art and culture” and “an era dominated by robots, hollow men, and automata incapable of escaping the grooves of thought and action patterned by society” (p. 170). In lesser hands, perhaps, the split identified here would be characterized in cruder and more predictable terms as the opposition between the new sciences of human behavior and a concomitant plea by artists and writers, with comparatively little scientific background or knowledge, for escape from their confines through the pure freedom of art for art’s sake, or a form of production that escapes the hyper-rationalized bureaucracy of industrial modernity. Yet, through careful reading of representative literary oeuvres, along with sections that join some of the dots in the history of the science of reflexes and the social implications of the concepts of habit and automaticity, the result is a more edifying and less predictable study of the interactions between the arts and the sciences in modernism. Among the four writers who feature in the four substantive chapters of this book, part of the Hopkins Studies in Modernism series, Wientzen finds ample evidence of reflexivity concerning their historical and scientific moment. In the examination of passages from D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West, and Samuel Beckett, Wientzen finds to varying degrees their awareness of, and response to, the troubling of human subjectivity, agency, and social control in the wake of the widening impact of the scientific and social scientific findings of human behavior and its potential for manipulation. There are four chapters sandwiched between a succinct introductory overview and a concluding chapter that assesses the implications of early-twentieth-century studies on twenty-first-century politics and media. For each of the chapters the structure remains largely consistent, starting with a contemporary set of related intellectual or scientific discoveries in the first half, followed by a sustained examination of
蒂莫西·温岑这本引人入胜、生动活泼、也有缺陷的书的核心是他在现代主义文学和艺术中发现的分裂,一方面,在约翰·b·沃森在美国的实验室和伊万·巴甫洛夫在俄罗斯的实验室中观察到的有机体的模式、凹槽和习惯的发现,另一方面,通过艺术的创造力和形式实验来克服有机体内部任何这种程序化的生理基础的动力。当然,这种分裂本身就是现代性的特征,在某种程度上,维岑认为这种二分法介于“艺术和文化的激进新颖性”和“一个由机器人、空心人和无法逃脱社会思维和行动模式的自动机主导的时代”之间(第170页)。也许,在少数人的手中,这里确定的分裂将以更粗糙和更可预测的术语来描述为人类行为的新科学与伴随而来的艺术家和作家之间的对立,这些艺术家和作家相对缺乏科学背景或知识,他们要求通过为艺术而艺术的纯粹自由来摆脱他们的限制,或者是一种逃避工业现代性超理性官僚主义的生产形式。然而,通过仔细阅读具有代表性的文学作品,以及连接反射科学史上的一些点和习惯和自动性概念的社会含义的部分,结果是对现代主义艺术与科学之间相互作用的更有启发性和更不可预测的研究。在这本书(霍普金斯现代主义研究系列的一部分)的四个实质性章节中,有四位作家,温岑在他们的历史和科学时刻找到了充分的反身性证据。在对d·h·劳伦斯、温德姆·刘易斯、丽贝卡·韦斯特和塞缪尔·贝克特的文章进行考察时,温岑发现,随着科学和社会科学对人类行为及其潜在操纵的发现的影响不断扩大,他们在不同程度上意识到并回应了人类主体性、代理和社会控制的困扰。全书共分四章,在简明的导论概述和总结章之间,评估了20世纪早期研究对21世纪政治和媒体的影响。每一章的结构基本保持一致,从前半部分的一组当代相关的知识或科学发现开始,然后是对科学的持续研究
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The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies by Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka (review) 《实验书:媒体研究中的情境实践》,作者:达伦·沃什勒、洛里·爱默生和尤西·帕里卡(书评)
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899694
B. Hof
of payoff in the afterword that comprises an urgent essay on the perils of habits and reflexes in the twenty-first century. In some ways it recombines the split strands of argumentation and application in order to bring the concerns of prior generations back to the present, although stylistically it is very different from the rest of the book. Readers familiar with Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019), or who are attentive to controversies in recent decades about the data troves of tech companies, will recognize the deep significance of those earlier scientific and social experiments in the manipulation of behavior. Unlike the more measured scholarship of the book until that point, the afterword comes across as a heartfelt diatribe based on the chilling realities explored in embryonic form within previous chapters, and serves as an effective wake-up call. Yes, this historical conjunction of science and literature may be fascinating, but forget to learn from it at your peril, Wientzen rightly implores the reader.
在后记中包含了一篇关于21世纪习惯和反射的危险的紧急文章。在某些方面,它重新结合了争论和应用的分裂,以便将前几代人的关注带回现在,尽管在风格上它与本书的其他部分非常不同。熟悉肖珊娜·祖博夫(Shoshana Zuboff)的《监视资本主义时代》(The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2019)的读者,或者关注近几十年来关于科技公司数据宝藏的争议的读者,会认识到早期那些操纵行为的科学和社会实验的深刻意义。与这本书在此之前更为严谨的学术研究不同,后记是基于前几章中尚处于萌芽状态的令人不寒而栗的现实而进行的发自内心的抨击,并起到了有效的警示作用。是的,科学和文学的这种历史结合可能是迷人的,但忘记从中吸取教训,你的危险,温岑正确地恳求读者。
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Contributors 贡献者
4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899697
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How Like a Leaf: Vital Energy in Greenhouse Infrastructures 如何像一片叶子:温室基础设施中的重要能量
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899692
K. Lynes
ABSTRACT:While commercial greenhouses are built as architectures to temper (climactic) precarity, this article argues that precarity abounds in the ripening conditions they enfold. Contemporary greenhouses harness the energy of the internet of things, precision agriculture, and artificial intelligence to manage inputs and outputs for optimal growth. Such growth, however, is often premised on the exploitation of racialized and gendered labor, an overlooked "greenhouse effect" of its model of agricultural production. The article examines how, as media, greenhouses compress space and time in the interests of yield, drawing from the vital energy of laborers, largely insourced from the Global South, and plants themselves. It concludes that the diffuse modalities of (human and nonhuman) sensing in the greenhouse nevertheless hold the potential to propose different networks of ripening. Arguing for a method of "non-citizen sensing," the article asks how we might make readable the data derived from the laboring bodies in these spaces and their capacity for sensing precarity.
摘要:虽然商业温室是为了缓和(高潮)不稳定而建造的,但本文认为,它们所包含的成熟条件中充满了不稳定。现代温室利用物联网、精准农业和人工智能的能量来管理投入和产出,以实现最佳生长。然而,这种增长往往以剥削种族化和性别化的劳动力为前提,这是其农业生产模式中被忽视的“温室效应”。这篇文章探讨了温室作为媒介,如何为了产量而压缩空间和时间,利用劳动力的重要能量(主要来自全球南方)和植物本身。它得出的结论是,温室中(人类和非人类)传感的扩散模式仍然有可能提出不同的成熟网络。这篇文章主张一种“非公民感知”的方法,并询问我们如何使这些空间中劳动身体的数据及其感知不确定性的能力变得可读。
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Science, Scientists, and Prehistories of SSK in Mid-Twentieth-Century British Literature 20世纪中期英国文学中SSK的科学、科学家和史前史
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899696
G. Matthews
ABSTRACT:This article investigates the diverse ways in which midtwentieth-century British writers responded to the proliferation of science and scientists in the traditionally non-scholarly spheres of industry, politics, and society and, in doing so, establishes a series of prehistories to the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Authors such as Fred Hoyle, C. P. Snow, D. F. Jones, Michael Moorcock, Daphne du Maurier, and John Wyndham interrogated the notion that science is an impersonal, detached body of knowledge and provided counternarratives to teleological narratives of scientific progress. These novelists sought to: (i) present scientists as diligent and productive in opposition to the platitudes of politicians and dour bureaucrats; (ii) debunk the stereotype that scientists are unemotional and irresponsible in contrast to the instrumental reason of fictional AI; and (iii) acknowledge that science is inseparable from the social context by foregrounding the complexities involved in the dissemination of new discoveries. The article analyses the ways these writers anticipate key concepts in SSK, including the construction of scientific fact, the scientific attitude and limits of the human, and the dissemination, reception, and epistemic authority of science. In doing so, they provide important prehistories to SSK and contribute much-needed sociocultural context to ongoing debates concerning the value of science in society.
摘要:本文研究了20世纪中期英国作家对工业、政治和社会等传统非学术领域的科学和科学家的激增所采取的不同回应方式,并以此为科学知识社会学(SSK)建立了一系列的史前史。弗雷德·霍伊尔、c·p·斯诺、d·f·琼斯、迈克尔·穆尔科克、达芙妮·杜·莫里埃和约翰·温德姆等作家质疑科学是一种非个人的、超然的知识体系的观念,并对科学进步的目的论叙事提出了反驳。这些小说家试图:(1)将科学家描绘成勤奋而富有成效的形象,与政客和沉闷官僚的陈词滥调形成鲜明对比;(ii)揭穿科学家冷漠和不负责任的刻板印象,而不是虚构的人工智能的工具理性;(iii)通过强调新发现传播过程中的复杂性,承认科学与社会环境是不可分割的。本文分析了这些作者对科学事实的建构、人的科学态度和局限性、科学的传播、接受和认识权威等科学概念的预测方式。在这样做的过程中,他们为SSK提供了重要的史前史,并为正在进行的关于科学在社会中的价值的辩论提供了急需的社会文化背景。
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Industries of Purity: Horses, Idols, and Affective Economy in Uma Musume Pretty Derby 纯洁业:乌玛博物馆美德比中的马、偶像和情感经济
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.a899691
L. Chu
ABSTRACT:This paper scrutinizes the confluence of idol and racing industries in Uma Musume Pretty Derby, a Japanese multimedia franchise centering on "horse girls," anthropomorphized characters based on racehorses. I study how the franchise elicits audience's emotional and financial investment by combining features of idol performance and racehorse breeding in an "affective economy," while highlighting its strategy to reconcile the contradictory concepts of purity through a process I call "purification." This paper uses the franchise to critically engage the imperial and eugenic legacies in the racing and idol industries of Japan, and demonstrates the complicated entanglement between science, empire, and entertainment.
摘要:本论文以“马女郎”为中心,以赛马为原型,将人物拟人化,探讨了偶像与赛车产业在《乌玛舞姬》中的融合。我研究了该系列如何在“情感经济”中结合偶像表演和赛马饲养的特点,吸引观众的情感和财务投资,同时强调其通过我称之为“净化”的过程调和矛盾的纯洁概念的策略。“本文利用特许经营权批判日本赛车和偶像行业的帝国和优生学遗产,并展示了科学、帝国和娱乐之间的复杂纠缠。
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Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser 《神经小说:文学形式与神经科学启蒙起源》作者:杰斯·凯泽
IF 0.1 4区 文学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/con.2023.0004
Tita Chico
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