Instruments and the Imagination

Always already new: media, history, and the data of culture

“…Genetics would be different in "the pacing of research and the ways [its] questions may be framed" (Bowker and Star 1999, 36). Similarly, see Lenoir (1994); Clarke and Fujimura (1992); Hankins and Silverman (1995).…”

Athanasius Kircher’s magical instruments: an essay on ‘science’, ‘religion’ and applied metaphysics

“…On Kircher's instruments, see esp. Gorman (2001) and Hankins and Silverman (1995). For Kircher's musical instruments, see Gouk (1999, passim) and Gouk (2001).…”

A Technology Roadmap for Intangible Assets Metrology

“…In this work, the usual sense of technology as a product of science is reversed [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Instead of seeing science as rigidly tied to data and rule-following behaviours, the term technoscience refers to a multifaceted domain of activities in which theory, data, and instruments each in turn serves to mediate the relation of the other two [21][22][23].…”