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Molecular Capture - The Animation of Biology (Hardcover)
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Molecular Capture - The Animation of Biology (Hardcover)
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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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