The externalized retina: Selection and mathematization in the visual documentation of objects in the life sciences

Curating blood: how students’ and researchers’ drawings bring potential phenomena to light

“…This is to say that while bioscience models may refer and perhaps embody the materiality of phenomenal experience (often experimentally realised), causal models also curate the contours of potential scientific object(s)/system(s) and the experimental method (e.g. Lynch, 1988Lynch, , 2006Rheinberger, 2009Rheinberger, , 2010. The potential realisation of 'things' like leukocytes (white blood cells); their functions and molecular causes/operations; or the bigger picture of the 'leukocyte cascade' (a term which collects the agents and the processes by which leukocytes are recruited to wound-sites to discharge their immunological duties) are all negotiated in their graphic representation (e.g.…”

“…The teaching comprised the same graphic and verbal lecture content as that given to the Master's students of the pilot study, but the teaching was now spread out over eight weeks and augmented with eight additional teaching hours in which the first author of this paper used lecture style presentations and led discussion and/or workshop-type activities exploring the visual cultures of science and giving the students opportunities to develop, exhibit, critique, and re-work their drawings using feedback from their peers and from ourselves. The teaching about scientific imagemaking used several of the references included by this article already: particularly the work of Michael Lynch (1988Lynch ( , 2006 …”

“…3. Model-drawing work is often restorative (Lynch, 1988), having the potential to return a scientific object, fractured and broken by the process of its (experimental) render, to its more original and 'living' state -'giving body' (Hopwood, 1999) to objects and processes which are otherwise static (see Maerker, 2011). 4.…”

“…In science the settlement of facts and models are inseparably intertwined with the historical development of visual culture and technology (Daston & Galison, 2007;Rheinberger, 1988Rheinberger, , 2010 and scientific knowledge is intrinsically bound up with graphic representation (Coopmans, Vertesi, Lynch, & Woolgar, 2014;Latour, 2006;Lynch, 1988Lynch, , 2006Pauwels, 2006). Among the sciences, biology makes most frequent and most varied use of images (Elkins, 2007), and while the technologies of bioscience image-making have changed dramatically since the enlightenment, drawing has never been entirely replaced as a relevant research tool (Hoffmann & Whittmann, 2013;Whittmann, 2013).…”

La construction de la référence comme travail interactif: accomplir la visibilité du détailanatomique durant une opération chirurgicale

“…Tel est le cas par exemple des professionels utilisant des caméras de surveillance (Ball, 2000), des stations de cntrôle dans les aéroports (Goodwin & Goodwin, 1996;Suchman, 1996), ou dans les métros (Luff & Heath, 2000;Luff, Heath & Jirotka, 2000), ou encore dans des situations de travail fortement organisées par les médiations technologiques (Luff & Heath, 1993). On peut dire que ces espaces complexes fournissent des terrains empiriques sur lesquels interroger les pratiques référentielles liées à la vision, y compris les pratiques de production d'effets de référenciation, d'objectivation, de facticité (Lynch, 1988), comme les pratiques de raisonnement, de reconnaissance perceptive, de lecture visuelle (Hartswood, Procter, Rouncefield, & Slack, 2000).…”