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SUMMARY:Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation - Hans-Jörg 
 Rheinberger (MPIWG)
DTSTART:20240229T153000Z
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CONTACT:Lewis Bremner
DESCRIPTION:I will present some aspects of my new book _Split and Splice_ 
 (Chicago University Press\, 2023). The overall aim of the book is to give 
 a consistent assessment of experimentation as a knowledge-generating proce
 dure by focusing on its practice. In the first part of the book\, the diff
 erent facets of the process of experimentation are dealt with from a micro
 scopic perspective. The second part deals with its macroscopic features. T
 aken together\, they render visible what is usually overlooked with respec
 t to experimentation\, either because it remains below the threshold of pe
 rception or because it lies beyond it. Experimental systems are taken as a
  starting point. They are in themselves already complex units of epistemic
  objects and the apparatus used to investigate them. Different aspects of 
 an experimental setup are examined more closely in the first part of the b
 ook: the production of traces and their conversion into data\, the constru
 ction of models\, the ways of making things visible\, the forms of graftin
 g new instruments and procedures onto an existing ensemble\, and note-taki
 ng. These aspects will be juxtaposed and characterized in their peculiarit
 ies and interrelations. The second part of the book focuses on the interre
 lations that experimental systems entertain among themselves. The characte
 ristic temporal\, spatial\, and narrative dimensions of these articulation
 s will be traced. Concepts that serve as guidelines in the investigation\,
  such as that of experimental culture\, will be presented by way of exampl
 es\, and they will be developed and tested for their usefulness on materia
 ls taken from the history of twentieth-century life sciences.
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Plant Sciences\, Downing Si
 te
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