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The playful unliving: Creativity and contingency in scientific practice (2021)

Juan Felipe Guevara-Aristizábal (Author)

Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 45
Issue: 3
Pages: 100782

URI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932721000375

DOI: 10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100782

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Creativity; genius Experiments and experimentation Philosophy of science Metaphysics Photography 20th century, early Exner, Sigmund Eder, Josef Maria Heidegger, Martin

Standing apart from Martin Heidegger’s 1929–1930 metaphysical lessons is his description of a photograph taken by Josef Maria Eder, for Sigmund Exner, using the lens of a glow worm’s eye. Since the technical details of the production of such a photography are not readily available, I will reconstruct the experimental setting. Paying attention to the technical details opens up a venue for historical and philosophical reflection based on the creative potential of scientific practices. Through a critical approach, a rather generic experimental meshwork could be turned into a natural-artifactual, living-nonliving hybrid setting in which the concepts of dense technological environment, philosophical toy, and experimental system meet and intertwine thanks to the playfulness that goes through them, a quality rooted in scientific practices. Within this hybrid and playful configuration, the unliving emerges as a paradoxical voice for the living.

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