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Experimental Futures
Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
Duke University Press
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978-0-8223-7563-0
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Rending Representation
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Published:August 2015
This chapter asks how molecular models “re-present” and “stand in” as proxies for protein molecules. It examines the use of mimetic, three-dimensional models in the history of the life sciences, comparing and contrasting these to models of protein structures. This chapter seeks to trouble standard accounts of realism and representation, proposing the concept of rendering as a performative theory that can grapple with the ways that molecular models not only re-present the molecular world, but also materialize some aspects of living matter, if not others. It documents the anxieties expressed by practitioners when their models of otherwise imperceptible and indeterminate...
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