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Jumping concepts and other transpositions: The Keller effect in/on discourses of living systems (2020)

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Evelyn Fox Keller’s work has long focused on the discontinuities that seem to punctuate discourses on living systems. The discourse of gene action, for example, focuses on the uncanny shift of agency from organism to genome, where the empirical ‘action’ of a living system becomes attributed to its genes. Shifts in these regimes of description become akin to conceptual transpositions, ‘jumping concepts’ parallel to the ‘jumping genes’ perceived by McClintock. This chapter will investigate Keller’s treatment of these shifts in parallel with her early work on slime mold aggregation, as both the holistic coherence of a living system or a discourse becomes visible through its sudden shifts - the Keller Effect.

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Article Willard McCarty (2020) Editorial, Making Sense of Metaphor: Evelyn Fox Keller and Commentators on Language and Science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (pp. 233-233). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Willard McCarty
Alan James Hogarth
Denis M. Walsh
O'Malley, Maureen A.
Miira B. Hill
Concepts
Rhetoric in scientific discourse
Communication of scientific ideas
Linguistic or semantic analysis
Metaphors; analogies
Agency (philosophy)
Ecology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
20th century
Places
United States
China
Vietnam
Taiwan
Institutions
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Royal Society of London
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