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And the Imag/in/ing of the Real
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“The process of visualization [is not] an effort to produce reality as it presents itself to the scientist, since science is not about copying nature and culture, but about revealing it.”
“Mimesis without expression is virtually impossible.”
“The human mind…seems eager to fill in the gaps and to make us see what we want to see”
-Luc
Pauwels, Visual Cultures of Science
visualization
produce reality
science
nature
culture
revealingMimesis
expression
gaps
make us see
human mind
Ambiguity
AMBIGUOUS
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“Rigorous scientific models of how biological processes occur”
“Our understanding is just exploding”
The study of beauty “is key to unlocking bewildering…mysteries and secrets”
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beauty
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beauty
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rhetorical
incommensurability
confusion
“Obstruct the understanding”
“Throw all into confusion”
Rhetoric & Language
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seductive details
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subjunctive
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MEANING
ABSTRACT
REAL
SIMULATION
IMAGE
MULTIPLICITY
REPRESENTATION
AESTHETIC
CURIOSITY
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multiplicity of meaning
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D STORTED
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separates from the real
Communication technologies “restructure consciousness, affecting [our] presence to the world and to [ourselves]and creating new interior distances within the psyche.”
-Walter
Ong
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subjunctive
multiplicity of meaning
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separates from the real
Quantum Mirage
Quantum Corral
Dynamical Billiards
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beauty
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multiplicity of meaning
separates from the real
AMBIGUOUS
SCIENCE
Basket (
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Rotor (
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Wheel (
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Chain(
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“Man as Industrial Palace”
“Liver as Storehouse”
thought is metaphorical
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promotes action
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promotes action
AMBIGUOUS
SCIENCE
The photograph paradox can…be seen as the co-existence of two messages, the one without a code (the photographic analogue), the other with a code (the ‘art’, or the treatment, or the ‘writing’, or the rhetoric, of the photograph); structurally, the paradox is clearly not the collusion of a denoted message and a connoted message…, it is that here the connoted (or coded) message develops on the basis of a message
without a code
. This structural paradox coincides with an ethical paradox: when one wants to be ‘neutral’, ‘objective,’ one strives to copy reality meticulously, as though the analogical were a factor of resistance against the investment of values; how then can the photograph be at once ‘objective’ and ‘invested’, natural, and cultural?
-Roland Barthes, “The Photographic Message
“Even efficient knowledge may be rejected because of the way its acquisition disturbs important social values.”
-Paul
Feyerabend
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Farewell to Reason
culture in every image
Stem Cell Harvest
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thought is metaphorical
promotes action
culture in every image
AMBIGUOUS
SCIENCE
Visual ambiguity is the degree to which multiple interpretations, removal from the authenticity of the referent, or possibility for action and choice is present.
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culture in every image
AMBIGUOUS
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Punctum
punctum
Modality
modality
Noise
noise
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culture in every image
punctum
modality
noise
AMBIGUOUS
SCIENCE
“There is more entropy in the real world than there is in your computer. That’s just the way it is.”
-Sherry
Turkle
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Simulation and Its Discontents
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culture in every image
punctum
modality
noise
AMBIGUOUS
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SCIENCE
Imaging
Imagining
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