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Molecular Capture - The Animation of Biology (Paperback)
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Molecular Capture - The Animation of Biology (Paperback)
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How computer animation technologies became vital visualization
tools in the life sciences 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. Molecular Capture 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. Situating 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. Ultimately, Molecular Capture 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.
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