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Emerging Complexity. The Dynamics of Discipline, Computational Tools, and Virtual Experiment from 1960–2000
The years 1960 to 2000 witnessed the emergence and diffusion of the "new sciences" of chaos and complexity. Lambert Williams’ project aimed to provide
Anticipation in Hereditary Disease in Europe 1900–50
The history of the concept of anticipation in hereditary disease, the notion that certain hereditary illnesses strike earlier and often more harshly i
Enhancing the Human: Sensory Enhancement and the Materiality of the Senses, 1910–1970
This project concerned a history of perception through the eyes of soldiers, factory workers, and office clerks: the ways in which human perception wa
Publications, “The Neuromance of Cerebral History,” in: S. Choudhury and J. Slaby (eds.), Critical Neuroscience, Blackwell (2011).
A China-Centered Perspective on the Travels of Rice, Tea, and Cotton through Early Modern Eurasia
During the colonial period, Westerners deliberately planned the introduction of valuable Asian crops such as rice, tea, or cotton to territories under
Logistical Life: Flows, Forms, Moments, Places
Logistics is the science, technology, and art of efficiently managing the mobility of things and people. It is a byword for the management of global s
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The Industrial Organism
During the long nineteenth century, biologists and geologists developed a teleological theory of evolution according to which organic entities exhibit
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The Art of Judgement in Wetlands
The ecological category of wetland is very recent and it came into use only in the second half of the last century, when the dramatic loss of wet land
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In spite of this awareness, the notion of wetland is highly problematic: it is not self-evident what constitutes wetlands as they are, by definition,
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Institute's Colloquium: Covid-19 in the Rearview Mirror?
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Institute's Colloquium: Covid-19 in the Rearview Mirror?
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