From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and cr...

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1. Verfasser:	Wharton, Annabel Jane (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Charlottesville ; London University of Virginia Press [2021]
Schlagworte:	Politik Architekturmodell Geschichte Naturwissenschaften Modell Körper > Motiv Körper Architektur Architectural models / History Models and modelmaking / History Simulation methods / History Architectural models Models and modelmaking Simulation methods History
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Zusammenfassung:	From climate change forecasts and pandemic maps to Lego sets and Ancestry algorithms, models encompass our world and our lives. In her thought-provoking new book, Annabel Wharton begins with a definition drawn from the quantitative sciences and the philosophy of science but holds that history and critical cultural theory are essential to a fuller understanding of modeling. Considering changes in the medical body model and the architectural model, from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Wharton demonstrates the ways in which all models are historical and political.0Examining how cadavers have been described, exhibited, and visually rendered, she highlights the historical dimension of the modified body and its depictions. Analyzing the varied reworkings of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem-including by monumental commanderies of the Knights Templar, Alberti's Rucellai Tomb in Florence, Franciscans' olive wood replicas, and video game renderings-she foregrounds the political force of architectural representations. And considering black boxes-instruments whose inputs we control and whose outputs we interpret, but whose inner workings are beyond our comprehension-she surveys the threats posed by such opaque computational models, warning of the dangers that models pose when humans lose control of the means by which they are generated and understood. Engaging and wide-ranging, 'Models and World Making' conjures new ways of seeing and critically evaluating how we make and remake the world in which we live
Beschreibung:	xiii, 178 Seiten Illustrationen, Pläne 23 cm
ISBN:	9780813946993 9780813946986