Article ID: CBB001553515

Difference Machines: Time in Experimental Systems (2015)

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Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (Author)


Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 23.2
Issue: 2
Pages: 165-176


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Keeping Time
Language: English

For a long time, identity and contradiction were the categories in which historical trajectories were conceptualized. Following Gilles Deleuze, this essay uses the categories of reproduction and difference instead to convey an idea of how the sciences develop on the basis of experimentation---a development that does not rest on anticipation, as is usually thought, but reveals itself as a process “driven from behind,” as Thomas Kuhn once put it. The essay exposes the temporal structure characteristic of experimental systems on the basis of an example from the recent history of the life sciences.

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Authors & Contributors
Clarke, Steven William
Luca Sciortino
Protevi, John
Mizrahi, Moti
Weber, Marcel
Walker, David M.
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Biology
Experiments and experimentation
Methodology of science; scientific method
Incommensurability
Epistemology
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
17th century
Places
Italy
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