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Berggeschrey! Rohstoffströme und Metallkultur im frühneuzeitlichen Bergbau
No 49
In ihrem aktuellen Projekt untersucht Tina Asmussen die soziomaterielle Dimension frühneuzeitlichen Bergbaus, indem sie wechselseitige Prozesse der Aneignung und der Zuschreibung von Wert analysiert.
Mountain Clamor! Resource Flows and Metal Culture in Early Modern Mining
No 49
In her ongoing research project, Tina Asmussen explores the sociomaterial dimensions of early modern mining through addressing mutual processes of appropriation, attribution, and valuation.
Die Wunder körperlicher Abfallprodukte
No 51
Tamar Novick untersucht den Gebrauch körperlicher Abfallprodukte in der wissenschaftlichen Praxis. Sie geht der Frage nach, wie nutzlose Materialien wertvoll werden und wie dies neue Beziehungen zwischen entfernten Orten, Institutionen, Menschen und Tieren ermöglicht.
The Wonders of Bodily Waste
No 51
Tamar Novick explores the use of bodily waste in scientific practice, considering when worthless matter becomes valuable and how this fosters new relationships between distant places, institutions, people, and animals.
Atomic Food for Peace?—Materializing a Radiant Idea in a Transnational Network of Research and Development
As a title for her project, “Atomic Food for Peace” is Karin Zachmann's invention. As a concept, however, it clearly existed in the mid-1950s. The ide
Cold War Rationality
A loose conglomerate of game theory, nuclear strategy, operations research, Bayesian decision theory, systems analysis, rational choice theory, and ex
A Guide Through Textual Practices in Late Renaissance Court Libraries
In the framework of the Working Group "The Learned Practices of Canonical Texts," Paola Molino's project "A Guide Through Textual Practices in Late Re
All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
"All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929–1989" presents a series of case studies in the methods by which social (ec
Epistemologies of the Living between 1900 and 1960
“We suspect that, to do mathematics, it would suffice that we be angels. But to do biology, even with the aid of intelligence, we sometimes need to fe