Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Concept Formerly Known as Representation -- 3. "New" Studies of Representation in Scientific Practice -- 4. The Arc of the Work -- Notes -- References -- Chapters -- 2. Drawing as: Distinctions and Disambiguation in Digital Images of Mars -- 1. Introduction: A Martian Discovery -- 2. Drawing as in Theoretical Context -- 3. "Making It Pop Out": Image Work and the Dawn of Aspect -- 4. The Many Visions of Tyrone: Drawing as in Action -- 5. The "Light-Soil Campaign": From Drawing as to Seeing as -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 3. Visual Analytics as Artful Revelation -- 1. Artfulness and Revelation -- 2. Watching Webinars -- 3. From Sight to Insight: Showing Screen Configuration -- 4. What You See Is (Not) What You Get -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Webinars -- 4. Digital Scientific Visuals as Fields for Interaction -- 1. Studying the Digitality of Scientific Visuals -- 2. fMRI Brain Visuals as Diagrams -- 3. In the Laboratory -- 4. The Imaged Body in the Brain Visuals -- 5. Digital and Visual as Interdependent -- 6. Extending the Boundaries of Scientific Visuals -- Notes -- References -- 5. Swimming in the Joint -- 1. Sensing and Acting -- 2. Inhabiting Minimally Invasive Space -- 3. "Operating on Images" -- 4. Inhabiting Surgical Space -- Notes -- 6. Chalk: Materials and Concepts in Mathematics Research -- 1. Chalk in Hand -- 2. Prior Accounts -- 3. Mathematics in Action -- 4. An Ostentatious Medium -- 5. Proofs and Reformulations -- 6. Representation in Mathematical Practice -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 7. Networked Neuroscience: Brain Scans and Visual Knowing at the Intersection of Atlases and Databases -- 1. Introduction: Seeing the Brain.

2. Scans in Suites -- 3. Deploying Database Logic and Probabilistic Thinking to Make Images -- 4. The Atlas as Interface -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 8. Rendering Machinic Life -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rending Representation -- 3. The Invention of Molecular Machines -- 4. Twenty-first-Century Molecular Machines -- 5. Renderings as Materialized Refigurations -- 6. Cultivating a Feeling for Machines -- 7. Engineering Biological Engineers -- 8. Deadpan Literalism -- 9. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 9. Nanoimages as Hybrid Monsters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Images of Nanotechnology -- 3. Hybrid Monsters and Attempts at Domestication and Purification -- 4. Images of Science and the Tension with Fiction -- 5. Images Importing the Future into the Present -- 6. Design Orientation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 10. Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Blurring Boundaries: Computational Biology -- 3. Toward a New Ontology of Scientific Vision -- 4. Perceptual Relations and the Measuring Body -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- 11. Essential Tensions and Representational Strategies -- 1. Nanotechnology, Computerization, and Normal versus Revolutionary -- 2. From Graphs to Images -- 3. "The Former for Credibility, the Latter for Analysis and Discussion" -- 4. Corporate Surface Science and the Ecology of Images -- 5. The Dispensability of Computing -- 6. The Commercialization of Representation -- 7. Art for Science's Sake -- Notes -- References -- 12. In Images We Trust? Representation and Objectivity in the Digital Age -- 1. The Guidelines -- 2. Ethics and the Composition of Digital Images -- 3. Transparency and Traceability -- 4. Trust and Objectivity in the Digital Age -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References.

13. Legitimizing Napkin Drawing: The Curious Dispersion of Laffer Curves, 1978-2008 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Political Meaning of the Original Laffer Curve -- 3. The "Academization" of the Curve -- 4. The Generalization of Laffer Curves -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 14. How (Not) to Do Things with Brain Images -- 1. Brains' Bright Line -- 2. Neurorealism: Neuroscience to the Rescue -- 3. Scientific Overlap and Interpretation: Immature Brains, Immature People -- 4. Explanatory Wars: Adolescence versus Dangerousness -- 5. Conclusions: Polemical Brains -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Reflections -- 15. Preface -- Reference -- 16. Beyond Representation -- Notes -- References -- 17. Representation in Formation -- References -- 18. Struggles with Representation: Could It Be Otherwise? -- References -- 19. Reconfiguring Practices -- References -- 20. Indistinct Perception -- Notes -- References -- 21. A Question of Trust: Old Issues and New Technologies -- References -- 22. The More Manipulations, the Better -- Reference -- Contributors -- Index -- Inside Technology.

A fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology and draws on recent theoretical perspectives on representation.

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