Breaking and Making Models
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Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.
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In this exceptionally diverse collection of essays, Making and Breaking Models casts a wide net to address the multifaceted nature of models and modelling. In this, Holzhey, Kesting, and Peppel marshal a plethora of perspectives to address this broad topic. By drawing on sources ranging from history and philosophy of science, cultural studies, biology, aesthetics, and others, the essays make for an appropriately eclectic experience that breaks the mould of the vast literature surrounding the topic of models and modelling. In this endeavor, they are successful. Not only does the book directly address traditional topics such as representation, it also openly engages in the political, legal, aesthetic, and general intellectual import of the topic. In support of this, the volume also connects to vividly diverse examples, moving effortlessly from large language models to the model organism Physarum polycephalum. This book is recommended for those seeking a refreshing view on models and modelling, especially when challenging one’s own discipline-specific views on the topics contained therein. — Daniel Brooks, research fellow, Fresh Pond Research Institute.| Hauptlesemotive: | Verstehen |
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