Adam Bencard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Bencard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Bencard |
| SIGNATURE | BENCARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2500-9023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The allure of microbiome research
Emerging biomedical fields are frequently communicated in promissory language—expressing hope, and sometimes even hype, about their potential to solve current unsolvable public health challenges and thus contribute to a better future. In this article, we explore the language used to depict gut microbiome research as a promissory field: what does this language “do,” and what might the potential implications be for creating what Lauren Berlant term…
Metabolic Arts Gathering
Twenty years ago, artist Suzanne Anker and science and technology studies scholar Dorothy Nelkins published The Molecular Gaze (2004), a treatment of the social and artistic phenomenon of the gene as a cultural touchstone [1]. Despite the omission of many notable bioartists and other contemporary artists working in genetics and with lab techniques more broadly, the book proved an important clearing house for concepts to look for when examining ar…
Fixing Unfixable Bodies
In this article we examine how patients of elective orthopaedic surgery might transform the understanding of their body's fixability over time. The article builds on an ethnographic fieldwork at an elective orthopaedic unit in Denmark and follow-up interviews with two patients eighteen months after their surgery. Through the affective theoretical framework of Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism, we discuss how the patients experience the part-loss of…
Metabolism and Art
Metabolism holds potential as both a crucial topic and an analytical tool for our current biopolitical moment, for understanding the agency and significance of material forces as they move into and through bodies. From this vantage point, this article suggests practicing a metabolic gaze by reading together metabolism and contemporary art. It discusses ways of defining metabolism that might be productive in helping to produce tools and touchstone…
Environmentality in biomedicine
Microbiome research shows that human health is foundationally intertwined with the ecology of microbial communities living on and in our bodies. This challenges the categorical separation of organisms from environments that has been central to biomedicine, and questions the boundaries between them. Biomedicine is left with an empirical problem: how to understand causal pathways between host health, microbiota and environment? We propose a concept…
Om Ivan Illichs Medical Nemesis
Anmeldelse af: Ivan Illich Grænser for lægevidenskaben – lægevæsenets nemesis: Undergravningen af sundheden København: Gyldendal, 1977
Why Looking at Objects Matters
Within museum studies, there has been a recent interest in engaging with objects and their material effects as something other than vehicles for human cultural meaning. This article contributes to this interest by offering a philosophical argument for the value of close sensory engagement with physical things, an argument found in the works of the eighteenth-century German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762), who is famous for f…
Presence in the Museum. On metonymies, discontinuity and history without stories
In this paper, I will explore and extend the concept of presence as formulated by the Dutch philosopher of history, novelist and psychologist Eelco Runia, arguing that it provides a useful tool with which to unpick some of the non-representational aspects of exhibition making in historical museums. The paper proceeds from a desire to find theoretical tools with which to, in Kathleen Stewarts words, 'slow the quick jump to representational thinkin…
Between meaning culture and presence effects
Between meaning culture and presence effects
Environmentality in biomedicine
Microbiome research shows that human health is foundationally intertwined with the ecology of microbial communities living on and in our bodies. This challenges the categorical separation of organisms from environments that has been central to biomedicine, and questions the boundaries between them. Biomedicine is left with an empirical problem: how to understand causal pathways between host health, microbiota and environment? We propose a concept…
Presence in the Museum. On metonymies, discontinuity and history without stories
In this paper, I will explore and extend the concept of presence as formulated by the Dutch philosopher of history, novelist and psychologist Eelco Runia, arguing that it provides a useful tool with which to unpick some of the non-representational aspects of exhibition making in historical museums. The paper proceeds from a desire to find theoretical tools with which to, in Kathleen Stewarts words, 'slow the quick jump to representational thinkin…
Metabolism and Art
Metabolism holds potential as both a crucial topic and an analytical tool for our current biopolitical moment, for understanding the agency and significance of material forces as they move into and through bodies. From this vantage point, this article suggests practicing a metabolic gaze by reading together metabolism and contemporary art. It discusses ways of defining metabolism that might be productive in helping to produce tools and touchstone…
Between meaning culture and presence effects
Presence in the Museum. On metonymies, discontinuity and history without stories
In this paper, I will explore and extend the concept of presence as formulated by the Dutch philosopher of history, novelist and psychologist Eelco Runia, arguing that it provides a useful tool with which to unpick some of the non-representational aspects of exhibition making in historical museums. The paper proceeds from a desire to find theoretical tools with which to, in Kathleen Stewarts words, 'slow the quick jump to representational thinkin…
Why Looking at Objects Matters
Within museum studies, there has been a recent interest in engaging with objects and their material effects as something other than vehicles for human cultural meaning. This article contributes to this interest by offering a philosophical argument for the value of close sensory engagement with physical things, an argument found in the works of the eighteenth-century German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714–1762), who is famous for f…
Om Ivan Illichs Medical Nemesis
Anmeldelse af: Ivan Illich Grænser for lægevidenskaben – lægevæsenets nemesis: Undergravningen af sundheden København: Gyldendal, 1977
Environmentality in biomedicine
Microbiome research shows that human health is foundationally intertwined with the ecology of microbial communities living on and in our bodies. This challenges the categorical separation of organisms from environments that has been central to biomedicine, and questions the boundaries between them. Biomedicine is left with an empirical problem: how to understand causal pathways between host health, microbiota and environment? We propose a concept…
Metabolism and Art
Metabolism holds potential as both a crucial topic and an analytical tool for our current biopolitical moment, for understanding the agency and significance of material forces as they move into and through bodies. From this vantage point, this article suggests practicing a metabolic gaze by reading together metabolism and contemporary art. It discusses ways of defining metabolism that might be productive in helping to produce tools and touchstone…
The allure of microbiome research
Emerging biomedical fields are frequently communicated in promissory language—expressing hope, and sometimes even hype, about their potential to solve current unsolvable public health challenges and thus contribute to a better future. In this article, we explore the language used to depict gut microbiome research as a promissory field: what does this language “do,” and what might the potential implications be for creating what Lauren Berlant term…
Metabolic Arts Gathering
Twenty years ago, artist Suzanne Anker and science and technology studies scholar Dorothy Nelkins published The Molecular Gaze (2004), a treatment of the social and artistic phenomenon of the gene as a cultural touchstone [1]. Despite the omission of many notable bioartists and other contemporary artists working in genetics and with lab techniques more broadly, the book proved an important clearing house for concepts to look for when examining ar…
Fixing Unfixable Bodies
In this article we examine how patients of elective orthopaedic surgery might transform the understanding of their body's fixability over time. The article builds on an ethnographic fieldwork at an elective orthopaedic unit in Denmark and follow-up interviews with two patients eighteen months after their surgery. Through the affective theoretical framework of Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism, we discuss how the patients experience the part-loss of…
Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works)