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Rendering life molecular : models, modelers, and excitable matter / Natasha Myers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Natasha, 1974-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proteins--Structure.
- Proteins.
- Molecules--Models.
- Molecules.
- X-ray crystallography.
- Molecular biologists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Natasha Myers shows in this ethnography how scientists who build three-dimensional models of proteins use their senses and bodies to create, represent, and evaluate otherwise imperceptible molecules. These modelers often consider matter to be made up of living, moving, and sometimes breathing entities, and Myers' study of them rethinks the objectivity of science.</div>
- Contents:
- Crystallographic renderings
- Tangible media
- Molecular embodiments
- Rending representation
- Remodeling objectivity
- Machinic life
- Lively machines
- Molecular calisthenics
- Conclusion: what is life becoming?
- Appendix: a protein primer.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375630
- 082237563X
- OCLC:
- 914715485
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