Hanna Rose Shell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Rose Shell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna Rose |
| FAMILY NAME | Shell |
| SIGNATURE | SHELL H R |
| AFFILIATIONS | MIT University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
High Altitude Observatory
High Altitude ObservatoryConversations on the Plurality of Worlds Hanna Rose Shell (bio) There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet 1.5.167–68 Click for larger view View full resolution Fig. 1. Photograph of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, 1941 or 1942, with the Roberts' Graham-Paige car, in which they had driven cross country, in the foreground. The observatory was completed over t…
DigitalSTS
The Documentary Impulse
This article has two interconnected goals. It is, first of all, a review of the film The Land Beneath Our Feet, an exemplary documentary that combines the history of technology, science and technology studies, and environmental history in its exploration of the social, cultural, and natural consequences of the rubber industry's expansion in Liberia. The essay's larger purpose, however, is to explore the powerful role documentary film-making pract…
Digital Histories of Disasters
On 11 March 2011, a giant earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Failure of the plant’s heating and cooling system and an inability to properly stabilize the reactors post-meltdown led to the displacement of over 150,000 people. In its wake, three historians and sociologists of science and technology with ties to Asia came together to attempt to use social media as a way to create a communi…
Technologist-Historian
NukeMap is an interactive data-visualization website that allows visitors to detonate virtual nuclear bombs on global targets of their choice.1 It is the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and technology who launched the site in early 2012. In NukeMap, the visitor selects a type of nuclear device, defining its size, or chooses from a menu of predefined options that model the effects that an actual historical bomb would have on a…
Shoddy heap
This essay uses a present-day mountain of textile waste known as ‘shoddy’ as an entry point into the history and ramifications of the development of wool recycling technology in West Yorkshire, England. It is argued that this entity, produced since the early nineteenth century by means of the collection, shredding, and re-spinning of old and discarded wool rags, emerged as both technological innovation and raw material. Its history, defined in pa…
Films in the Archive
The Prelinger Archives, a collection of over 60,000 so-called ephemeral films, approximately 6,500 of which are freely available online for viewing and public download, is an amazing resource for research and teaching in the history of technology. [superscript 1] Collector, archivist, writer, and filmmaker Rick Prelinger began assembling his collection in the early 1980s. Over the next decades, his collection of 35 mm and 16 mm films grew into th…
Cinehistory and Experiments on Film
This article considers what time-based audio-visual media can bring to historical scholarship in science and visual culture studies. The author argues that the history and critical analysis of cinematography and other time-based optical research methods used in the social, life and physical sciences, are productively accomplished through a simultaneously theory- and practice-bound model of multimedia history. She introduces the concept and term c…
Casting Life, Recasting Experience
Casting Life, Recasting Experience:Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature Hanna Rose Shell (bio) this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. William Shakespeare1 I shall make him a model whereby he will be able to understand. Bernard Palissy2 The sixteenth-century natural historian and ceramicist Bernard Palissy took life into his own hands, channeling nature into clay. Best known today fo…
Casting Life, Recasting Experience
Casting Life, Recasting Experience:Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature Hanna Rose Shell (bio) this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. William Shakespeare1 I shall make him a model whereby he will be able to understand. Bernard Palissy2 The sixteenth-century natural historian and ceramicist Bernard Palissy took life into his own hands, channeling nature into clay. Best known today fo…
Digital Histories of Disasters
On 11 March 2011, a giant earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Failure of the plant’s heating and cooling system and an inability to properly stabilize the reactors post-meltdown led to the displacement of over 150,000 people. In its wake, three historians and sociologists of science and technology with ties to Asia came together to attempt to use social media as a way to create a communi…
Casting Life, Recasting Experience
Casting Life, Recasting Experience:Bernard Palissy's Occupation between Maker and Nature Hanna Rose Shell (bio) this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. William Shakespeare1 I shall make him a model whereby he will be able to understand. Bernard Palissy2 The sixteenth-century natural historian and ceramicist Bernard Palissy took life into his own hands, channeling nature into clay. Best known today fo…
Cinehistory and Experiments on Film
This article considers what time-based audio-visual media can bring to historical scholarship in science and visual culture studies. The author argues that the history and critical analysis of cinematography and other time-based optical research methods used in the social, life and physical sciences, are productively accomplished through a simultaneously theory- and practice-bound model of multimedia history. She introduces the concept and term c…
Shoddy heap
This essay uses a present-day mountain of textile waste known as ‘shoddy’ as an entry point into the history and ramifications of the development of wool recycling technology in West Yorkshire, England. It is argued that this entity, produced since the early nineteenth century by means of the collection, shredding, and re-spinning of old and discarded wool rags, emerged as both technological innovation and raw material. Its history, defined in pa…
Films in the Archive
The Prelinger Archives, a collection of over 60,000 so-called ephemeral films, approximately 6,500 of which are freely available online for viewing and public download, is an amazing resource for research and teaching in the history of technology. [superscript 1] Collector, archivist, writer, and filmmaker Rick Prelinger began assembling his collection in the early 1980s. Over the next decades, his collection of 35 mm and 16 mm films grew into th…
Technologist-Historian
NukeMap is an interactive data-visualization website that allows visitors to detonate virtual nuclear bombs on global targets of their choice.1 It is the creation of Alex Wellerstein, a historian of science and technology who launched the site in early 2012. In NukeMap, the visitor selects a type of nuclear device, defining its size, or chooses from a menu of predefined options that model the effects that an actual historical bomb would have on a…
Digital Histories of Disasters
On 11 March 2011, a giant earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Failure of the plant’s heating and cooling system and an inability to properly stabilize the reactors post-meltdown led to the displacement of over 150,000 people. In its wake, three historians and sociologists of science and technology with ties to Asia came together to attempt to use social media as a way to create a communi…
The Documentary Impulse
This article has two interconnected goals. It is, first of all, a review of the film The Land Beneath Our Feet, an exemplary documentary that combines the history of technology, science and technology studies, and environmental history in its exploration of the social, cultural, and natural consequences of the rubber industry's expansion in Liberia. The essay's larger purpose, however, is to explore the powerful role documentary film-making pract…
DigitalSTS
High Altitude Observatory
High Altitude ObservatoryConversations on the Plurality of Worlds Hanna Rose Shell (bio) There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet 1.5.167–68 Click for larger view View full resolution Fig. 1. Photograph of the High Altitude Observatory at Climax, 1941 or 1942, with the Roberts' Graham-Paige car, in which they had driven cross country, in the foreground. The observatory was completed over t…
History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)