.... Using an interpretive model that synthesizes perspectives from embodied cognition and phenomenology, the chapter argues that visceral reactions prevalent in both positive and negative assessments of free jazz can be attributed in large part to the radical vocal-mimetic demands of this particularly...

... a mimetic double of sex as a “biological” given. The author experimented with both—gender as lived and genre as written—in her the search for nonmimetic ways of experiencing and conceiving our becomings. queer theory feminism trans feminism embodied knowledge trans embodiment ...

... 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...

... molecular configurations. This chapter examines the mimetic relationship between modeler and model, exploring ways that modelers give their bodies over to the process of articulating the movements of their molecules, and transducing and propagating the phenomena through their tissues. This chapter pays...

... argues that Roger Caillois’s account of mimesis as a radically passive mode of existence challenges the underlying interventionist logic of both models of reflexivity. The chapter concludes by exploring the possibilities of mimetic surrender as a radically noninterventionist ethic of mediation, through...

...Ontics and Epistemics 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...

... experiments,” rather than just thought experiments, using the physicality of their bodies to test and assess possible molecular configurations. This chapter examines the mimetic relationship between modeler and model, exploring ways that modelers give their bodies over to the process of articulating...

... perspectives from embodied cognition and phenomenology, the chapter argues that visceral reactions prevalent in both positive and negative assessments of free jazz can be attributed in large part to the radical vocal-mimetic demands of this particularly strident, noisy timbral quality. Gender and race...

..., to imagine the figure of the trans person independently of sexuality, trans studies had to take a little distance from queer studies. Gender might no longer be just a mimetic double of sex as a “biological” given. The author experimented with both—gender as lived and genre as written—in her the search...