{"product_id":"rendering-life-molecular-models-modelers-and-excitable-matter-hardback-9780822358664","title":"Rendering Life Molecular; Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Hardback) 9780822358664","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRendering Life Molecular\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eModels, Modelers, and Excitable Matter\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNatasha Myers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822358664\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 August 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 55 illustrations, incl. 19 in color\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Essential reading for those interested biopolitics, bioethics, science studies, and genetics, genomics, and the new omics.\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa (New Genetics and Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"One of the most exciting books published this year, Natasha Myer’s \u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter\u003c\/i\u003e, is an ethnography of protein modellers, the first such study of this new and central area of biological research.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Sherryl Vint (Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Amplifying instances of haptic and creative thinking opens avenues for a different kind of science than one may find presented in popular media.... The result is not only intellectually invigorating but also abounds in amusing curiosities. One might say 'eye opening,' but in the spirit of the book, it would perhaps be better to say 'vivifying.'\" \u003c\/div\u003e - Jonathan G. Wald (Current Anthropology) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular\u003c\/i\u003e offers an engaging view into the world of scientists who describe the unseeable.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - R. M. Denome (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking book, a whirlwind ethnography pregnant with epistemological and empirical insights on movements, practices, knowledge and reasoning around proteins, which can and should inform future philosophical studies of modeling as well as STS work on experimental practices in and beyond biology.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Sabina Leonelli (Metascience) \u003cdiv\u003e\"... logical, theoretically and methodologically iterative, and, most importantly, ethnographically rich and robust.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Udo Krautwurst (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly substances visible, tangible, and workable is a challenging task, one that is not readily automated, even by the fastest computers. Natasha Myers explores what protein modelers must do to render three-dimensional, atomic-resolution models of these lively materials. \u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular\u003c\/i\u003e shows that protein models are not just informed by scientific data: model building entangles a modeler’s entire sensorium, and modelers must learn to feel their way through the data in order to interpret molecular forms. Myers takes us into protein modeling laboratories and classrooms, tracking how gesture, affect, imagination, and intuition shape practices of objectivity. Asking, ‘What is life becoming in modelers' hands?’ she tunes into the ways they animate molecules through their moving bodies and other media. In the process she amplifies an otherwise muted liveliness inflecting mechanistic accounts of the stuff of life.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Laboratory Entanglements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Crystallographic Renderings  35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tangible Media  74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Molecular Embodiments  99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Ontics and Epistemics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rending Representation  121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Remodeling Objectivity  136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Forms of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Machinic Life  159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lively Machines  182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Molecular Calisthenics  204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming?  230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A Protein Primer  239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  299\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580194943256,"sku":"9780822358664","price":94.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rendering-life-molecular-models-modelers-and-excitable-matter-hardback-9780822358664","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}