Articulating Novelty in Science and Art
The Comparative Technography of a Robotic Hand and a Media Art Installation
Authors: Stubbe, Julian
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Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study’s method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws on a detailed comparison of two cases: the becoming of a robotic hand made from silicone, and the genesis of a media art installation that renders visible changes in the earth’s magnetic field. In contrast to the canon of sociological innovation studies, which regard novelty as what actors in the field label as new or innovation, the author attempts to delineate certain shifts in an object’s becoming that individuate an object and render its difference visible. This entails attending the enactment of novelty through cultural imaginaries and narratives about technologies, as well as acknowledging the shifts in technical forms that make loose elements enter a new kind of circularity. From this perspective, novelty is an articulation: when differences are not contradicting, but when differing characteristics are aligned, fitted, and click in so as to appear and behave as a distinct entity.
- About the authors
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Dr. Julian Stubbe currently works as scientific consultant in the field of demographic change and future research.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Novelty and Technological Objects
Pages 15-70
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Identity: How Loose Elements are Connected
Pages 73-105
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Form: How Materials Become Effective
Pages 107-160
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Difference: How Categories are Valorized
Pages 161-217
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The Aesthetic Reflexivity of Material Practice
Pages 221-232
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Articulating Novelty in Science and Art
- Book Subtitle
- The Comparative Technography of a Robotic Hand and a Media Art Installation
- Authors
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- Julian Stubbe
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-18979-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-18979-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-18978-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 245
- Number of Illustrations
- 30 b/w illustrations
- Topics
