Article ID: CBB612007465

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

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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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Authors & Contributors
D’Oro, Giuseppina
Boer, Karin de
Howard, Stephen
Raghav Seth
Videira, Antonio Augusto Passos
Uebel, Thomas E.
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Experiments and experimentation
Metaphysics
Physics
Philosophy
Methodology of science; scientific method
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
Germany
France
United States
Europe
Institutions
Vienna Circle
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