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... observations of hands-on experiments. Barbara McClintock skilled vision multisited ethnography René Descartes hands-on experiments ...

... of inaudible tones is explored as a case study. Against the background of the Vesalian Renaissance, the chapter provides a detailed analysis of René Descartes's anatomical experiments in the Low Countries. It portrays the philosopher as a fervent hands-on experimenter and further explores Cartesian...

... Chapter 3 reframes the historical inquiry of the previous chapters as a philosophical project. Drawing on the work of Edmund Husserl, it describes his concept of epoché and explains how it allows a rereading of Descartes's meditation on wax in the context of his anatomical experiments...

..., the epilogue introduces the concept of cleanroom aesthetics. It offers a description of a cleanroom visit that provides a “practiography” of hand-on experiences and bodily practices in microbiological cleanroom facilities. From this experiential grounding, the epilogue reassesses the Cartesian legacy...

... This chapter explores the relationship between touch and intimacy between dancers. It asks how and why tactility intensifies on the dancefloor, turning to interviews with partygoers. On the one hand, many of them valued touch as a physical expression of intimacy and as an antidote to prevailing...

... This chapter by Anna Mann, Annemarie Mol, Priya Satalkar, Amalinda Savirani, Nasima Selim, Malini Sur, and Emily Yates-Doerr reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate it with their hands. Drawing on the technique...

..., not to mention being a valuable indicator of cultural trends in health and hygiene. The innovative products and clever publicity produced by pioneering companies like Kao and Shiseido tell a distinctive story about Japan’s experience of modernity, including the impact on national culture of mass-market...

... to the nation. This discourse hinges on a disjunction between what the city is on the one hand, and what it can and in fact should become on the other. It ordinarily takes the form, implicitly or explicitly, of exhortation. In this understanding of development as a willed project, indeed, a leap...

... This chapter introduces two different ways of imagining the postracial. On the one hand, the postracial names a state and place beyond racial difference and inequality, or a condition advancing toward this state. This version of the post-racial overlooks how over-confident narratives, especially...

... of “backstopping” for the negotiations; and the Soviet approach toward nuclear conflict. It debunks, based on testimony by senior Soviet military officials, reports that the Soviets secretly deployed a “Dead Hand” system for automatically launching nuclear weapons without any human intervention. It includes...

...Documenting Identities This chapter explores the macho as “the superman of the multitude,” a “national type” by which Mexico, as a nation, is often classified. Through this decidedly folklorist definition, Américo Paredes makes machismo out to be an aspiration handed down from generation...

..., research, and business infrastructures for accessing data and samples, undertaking reputable experiments, and protecting intellectual property. Biopolis illuminates how bioethical procedures must be embedded in a biomedical platform, facilitated by cross-cultural skills to mediate between Asian patients...

... This chapter turns to the first substantial part of the trial, which focused on M-13, the security center Duch ran during the Cambodian civil war. There, he experimented and began to develop methods of interrogation and torture that he would take with him to S-21 after the war—along...

...Playable Bodies This roundtable opens part 2 of the collection, “Playable Bodies,” by following the first section of theoretical framing with a focus on queered experiences of bodies in video games, game making, and the processes of manufacture. The roundtable features the game makers Naomi...

...Trans Sanfrisco “Trick Dive” is a sexually explicit short story drawing on the author's experiences as a trans-rage-fueled leather domme, set in an archetypal waterfront dive bar. It is told from the point of view of a trans sex worker confronting a man who wants something from her—knowledge...

... of peasant class oppression at the hands of an evil landlord through figurative sculptures, Cai’s reworking moved it out of a representational mode and into the realm of conceptual art. Cai’s reworking focused on form, leading to a more ethereal and fluid appreciation of life’s cyclical flow...

... or to control certain aspects of the world by making and modulating sounds. Ergo-audition covers a range of experiences, from simple feedback mechanisms (judging the fullness of a receptacle based on changes in harmonic timbre in a liquid being poured) to the psychological and perceptual complexities involved...

...-specific and historically coherent self, the metaphor is often employed to justify the fragmentation of experience and temporal disorientation. A case study that I use is the reconstruction and gentrification of Beijing’s Qianmen district in 2008. Buildings, billboards, and digital screens have formed...

... must develop informational, research, and business infrastructures for accessing data and samples, undertaking reputable experiments, and protecting intellectual property. Biopolis illuminates how bioethical procedures must be embedded in a biomedical platform, facilitated by cross-cultural skills...