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Articulating Novelty in Science and Art

The Comparative Technography of a Robotic Hand and a Media Art Installation

Julian Stubbe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 245 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-18978-5 (ISBN)

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Julian Stubbe aims at characterizing what novelty is in the becoming of objects and how the new becomes part of a shared reality. The study's method is comparative and concerned with technological practice in science as well as in art. It draws on a detailed comparison of two cases: the becoming of a robotic hand made from silicone, and the genesis of a media art installation that renders visible changes in the earth's magnetic field. In contrast to the canon of sociological innovation studies, which regard novelty as what actors in the field label as new or innovation, the author attempts to delineate certain shifts in an object's becoming that individuate an object and render its difference visible. This entails attending the enactment of novelty through cultural imaginaries and narratives about technologies, as well as acknowledging the shifts in technical forms that make loose elements enter a new kind of circularity. From this perspective, novelty is an articulation: when differences are not contradicting, but when differing characteristics are aligned, fitted, and click in so as to appear and behave as a distinct entity.

Dr. Julian Stubbe currently works as scientific consultant in the field of demographic change and future research.

Novelty and technological objects.- Three articulations of novelty: identity, form, and difference.- The aesthetic reflexivity of material practice.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	XII, 245 p. 30 illus.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	344 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Actor-Network-Theory • Future Studies • Gilbert Simondon • Imaginaries • Innovation Society • Knowledge - Discourse • reflexivity • Social Sciences • society & social sciences • Society & Social Sciences • Sociology
ISBN-10	3-658-18978-9 / 3658189789
ISBN-13	978-3-658-18978-5 / 9783658189785
Zustand	Neuware