Traces Generating What Was There

Traces keep time and make the past visible. As such, they continue to be a fundamental resource for scientific knowledge production in modernity. While the art of trace reading is a millennia-old practice, tracings are specifically produced in the photographic archive or in the scientific laboratory...

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Main Author Wulfingen, Bettina Bock von
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
German
Published Germany De Gruyter 2017
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Edition1
Subjects
Cell interaction
Cellular recognition
Evidence
Systemic memory hypothesis
The arts. Fine and decorative arts
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Summary:Traces keep time and make the past visible. As such, they continue to be a fundamental resource for scientific knowledge production in modernity. While the art of trace reading is a millennia-old practice, tracings are specifically produced in the photographic archive or in the scientific laboratory. The material traces of the forms represent the objects and causes to which they owe their existence while making them invisible at the moment of their visualization. By looking at different techniques for the production of traces and their changes over two centuries, the contributions show the continuities they have, both in the laboratories and in large colliders of particle physics. This volume, inspired by Carlo Ginzburg's early works, formulates a theory of traces for the 21 st century.
ISBN:9783110535068
3110535068
3110534789
9783110534788
DOI:10.1515/9783110535068