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Cut and Paste around 1900
Cut and paste is a technique that still exists today. Its outstanding history started in the printing age and reached a highpoint towards the end of t
Publications, Anke te Heesen: Der Zeitungsausschnitt. Ein Papierobjekt der Moderne. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
Calculated Virtues: Explanations of Altruism in Biology and Society since Darwin
Evolutionary biology is currently enjoying a period of high public prestige. At the moment, nature’s authority is being asserted over the nature of ou
Publications, “Ant Utopias and Human Dystopias around World War I,” in Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal, eds., The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Anthropometric Data Banks and the Making of the Dimensional Body
What does it take to create an archive of human forms and their interactions with machinery? How does the human body come into being as an engineering
Doing Things with Data: The Cold War Political Economy of Environmental Archives
The International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1957–58) was the largest scientific international venture in the twentieth century. The most important part o
Data Not Good Enough to See the Light of the Day: Shifting Boundaries Between Private and Public Experimental Data
The current era of "big data" and "data-driven science" is a result, not only of technological innovations, but also of a number of deep epistemologic
Databases and Data Communities in Animal Ecology
To generate a massive archive of data, one must often first convince a large number of scientists that they have more to gain by sharing their data th
Data Processing, Data Management, and Data Archiving in Twentieth-Century Astronomy
Starting in the 1960s, astronomers’ view of the sky shifted from an analog perspective in which data was recorded using photographic plates and analog
Circulation in Nineteenth-Century France: Blood, Water, and Railroads
The term "circulation" was widely used in French urban planning from the 1850s onwards to designate the flow of people, goods, information, traffic, c
Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
The visual documentation of famine in nineteenth-century India provides a frame for understanding how modalities of classification, institutional prac
A Matter of Time: Transforming Timekeeping in Nineteenth-century Japan
The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Yet glancing at mechanical clocks designed in a culture
Publications, Frumer, Y. (2014). Translating Time: Habits of Western-Style Timekeeping in Late Edo Japan. Technology and Culture 55(4), 785-820.