The brain is the most intricate, energetically active, and plastic organ in the body. These
features extend to its cellular elements, the neurons and glia. Understanding neurons, or …

In Anthropological Futures, Michael MJ Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a
mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating …

From the ancient Romans, through the Middle Ages, to the late of the nineteenth century, the
Aristotelian doctrine of spontaneous generation was one of the most basic laws. Even the …

1. Adolf Sellmann,“Das Geheimnis des Kinos,” Bild und Film 1, nos. 3–4 (1912): 65–67, here
65. All translations are my own unless otherwise noted. 2. The scholarship on “useful film” …

An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and
research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions. In Alien Agency, Chris …

For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers.
The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how …

Interest in biotechnology has been increasing in the humanities and social sciences,
causing a proliferation of specific case studies of individual technologies or particular …

Something pullulates below the surface of early theories of film. Cellular tissue, says Walter
Benjamin, is “more native to the camera than the atmospheric landscape or the soulful …

Thinkers from a variety of fields analyze the roles of imaging technologies in science and
consider their implications for many issues, from our conception of selfhood to the authority …

Linda F. Hogle contributions by clinical practitioners, political authorities, insurers,
population health planners, or industrial developers and suppliers of goods and services …