{"product_id":"molecular-capture-the-animation-of-biology-9781517910341","title":"Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Who would have thought that computer animation technologies developed in the second half of the twentieth century would become essential visualization tools in today’s biosciences? This book is the first to examine this phenomenon. \u003ci\u003eMolecular Capture\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how popular media consumption and biological knowledge production have converged in molecular animations—computer simulations of molecular and cellular processes that immerse viewers in the temporal unfolding of molecular worlds—to produce new regimes of seeing and knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSituating the development of this technology within an evolving field of historical, epistemological, and political negotiations, Adam Nocek argues that molecular animations not only represent a key transformation in the visual knowledge practices of life scientists but also bring into sharp focus fundamental mutations in power within neoliberal capitalism. In particular, he reveals how the convergence of the visual economies of science and entertainment in molecular animations extends neoliberal modes of governance to the perceptual practices of scientific subjects. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s speculative metaphysics and Michel Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality, Nocek builds a media philosophy well equipped to examine the unique coordination of media cultures in this undertheorized form of scientific media. More specifically, he demonstrates how governmentality operates across visual practices in the biosciences and the popular mediasphere to shape a molecular animation apparatus that unites scientific knowledge and entertainment culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, \u003ci\u003eMolecular Capture\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that molecular animation is an achievement of governmental design. It weaves together speculative media philosophy, science and technology studies, and design theory to investigate how scientific knowledge practices are designed through media apparatuses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Thoughtful and deeply researched, \u003ci\u003eMolecular Capture\u003c\/i\u003e brings together history of science, media theory, and philosophy of representation, power, and governmentality to present a provocative argument about the relation of entertainment and science as crystallized in the form of molecular animation.\"—Kirsten Ostherr, director of the Medical Futures Lab and the Medical Humanities Program, Rice University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Putting aside traditional film history models, \u003ci\u003eMolecular Capture\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the time-based molecular model’s emergence across the science-entertainment divide. Part history of animation and part speculative visual theory of science imaging, \u003ci\u003eMolecular Capture\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the extent to which our fascination with the molecular, and molecules themselves, move fluidly across the science-entertainment divide.\"—Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: On Speculative Media Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Molecular Entertainment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Visuality and Experimental Knowledge Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. A Feeling for Theoretical Biology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Eco-social Media\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Governing the Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The Animation Apparatus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Epistemic Capture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript: A Prolegomenon to Governmental Design\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVideography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409715536215,"sku":"9781517910341","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517910341.jpg?v=1730507777","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/molecular-capture-the-animation-of-biology-9781517910341","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}