Haptics: Haptic Creativity and the Mid-Embodiments of Experimental Life

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 239-261

  Myers, Natasha ^a   Dumit, Joe ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affinities among practices of biologists visualizing living cells; Articulating excitable habitus of experimentalist; Embodiment, experimental agency and the middle voice; Experimentation, risky enterprise unpredictable, uncharted "labyrinths"; Haptics, and haptic creativity mid embodiments of experimental life; Henri Bergson's (1991) Matter and Memory theory of perception; Looping video, not treated as a stand alone representation of cell; Middle voice grammatical form lost to most present languages; Use of grammatical definitions of "voice" in no way limiting analysis to linguistic speech; Visualization programs, and database structures responsive manipulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880677618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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