Article ID: CBB126105384

Entanglements of instruments and media in investigating organic life (2016)

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The question what constitutes organic life might be answered variously. This special issue explores how the rendering of life throughout the history of biology has been shaped by various instruments and media. While acknowledging the significance of the theoretical and social scenes of inquiry in which specific tools and techniques develop, and which delimit epistemic possibilities for making sense of life, the issue draws attention to material practices and instrumental mediations in experimental studies of life. Although it might seem self-evident that biology takes as its object of inquiry living organisms, it is productive to regard its subject matter as organic media rather than discrete organisms. The papers gathered in this issue show the rich potential for the critical study of how organic life has been constituted through the tools used to mediate its study.

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Authors & Contributors
Lowe, James W. E.
Isabel Gabel
MacLeod, Miles
Bognon-Küss, Cécilia
Holmes, Tarquin
Zammito, John H.
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Life sciences
Methodology of science; scientific method
Laboratory techniques and procedures
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Places
United States
Germany
Brazil
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