Michael Hagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1183345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Hagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Hagner |
| SIGNATURE | HAGNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Mirror and the Mind
Tom Holert, “ca.1972” Gewalt – Umwelt – Identität – Methode
In recent years, we have seen a couple of books that cover a single year. This genre of year-based historiography has been repeatedly criticized for presenting years as if they were a historical turning point, of which the reader had not yet been aware. In the case of Tom Holert’s new book, this would be a misleading. 1972 was not a particularly spectacular year, and Holert is not interested in creating a homogenous image. Instead, he presents a …
Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte II
Views on History of Science II . This essay makes a claim for a new political awareness in the history of science, which goes beyond the practical turn that shaped the field in the last 25 years. This revision should take into consideration both new hostile political circumstances and new conditions for academic publishing after the digital revolution
Nachbemerkung
Unkomplizierte Bilder
Autorinnen und Autoren
Preliminary Material
Kindler Kompakt Klassiker der Naturwissenschaften
Dieser Band informiert über die zentralen Werke der Naturwissenschaften von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart z.B. von Euklid, Kopernikus, Galilei, Newton, Linné, Lavoisier, Darwin, Mendel, Hertz, Einstein
Kindler Kompakt
Einwegbilder
Bildkritik befasst sich üblicherweise mit Bildern, die aufbewahrt und gehütet, archiviert und dokumentiert werden. Was aber ist mit Bildern, denen kein dauerhafter Wert zugebilligt wird? Einwegbilder generieren ihren Wert in der kurzen Dauer, in der sie ihre Funktion erfüllen. Ihnen scheinen eindeutige und ausschließliche Rezeptions- und Gebrauchsweisen eingeschrieben zu sein. Eintrittskarten werden entwertet, Briefmarken abgestempelt, Plakate üb…
Räume des Wissens
Perception, knowledge and freedom in the age of extremes
Cómo funciona la mente
Este trabajo ofrece un repaso de la historia de la visualización de los procesos mentales a través de la descripción de las diferentes tecnologías desarrolladas desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días destinadas a representar la actividad cerebral
Das Unbewusste zwischen Subversion und neurowissenschaftlichem Biedermeier
Medical Science in the Light of a Flawed Study of the Holocaust
In her PhD thesis Reading Fleck: Questions on Philosophy and Science (Hedfors, 2006) and her papers based on it, Eva Hedfors proposes a sci entifically informed reading of Ludwik Fleck that aims to contest the (puta tive) mythology of Fleck. According to Hedfors, Fleck is believed to have been an important scientist. However, a careful reading of his scientific papers, she claims, reveals that Fleck's studies were poorly done, often meaningless a…
The World as Laboratory and Parliament – Bruno Latour's Political Ecology as Emerging from Science Studies Die Welt als Labor und Versammlungsort – Bruno Latours politische Ökologie aus dem Geiste der…
The historical and philosophical study of science and technology has undergone significant change in the last 20 years. The new goal of this approach is to focus on practices and the material representations of scientific knowledge. Bruno Latour, one of the main proponents of Science Studies, has broadened this new approach to a "symmetrical anthropology", which tries to overcome traditional distinctions such as nature and society, subject and ob…
Toward a History of Attention in Culture and Science
As a direct effect of the omnipresence of the new media, attention has become a central focus of interest. Since the spectrum of visual stimuli and entertainment has become so broad, curiosity, pleasure and admiration are no longer regarded as virtues and passions to be stimulated and satisfied. The problem is rather how to acquire and manage more and more information in shorter and shorter periods of time. In this situation, attention is so prec…
Skulls, Brains, and Memorial Culture
ArgumentIn this paper I will argue that the scientific investigation of skulls and brains of geniuses went hand in hand with hagiographical celebrations of scientists. My analysis starts with late-eighteenth century anatomists and anthropologists who highlighted quantitative parameters such as the size and weight of the brain in order to explain intellectual differences between women and men and Europeans and non-Europeans, geniuses and ordinary …
Cultivating the Cortex in German Neuroanatomy
Argument The cerebral localization of mental functions is one of the centerpieces of modern brain research. Though the localization paradigm in its cultural and social interwovenness has been characterized as successful in the last third of the nineteenth century by a variety of historians of the neurosciences, there is also general agreement that localization came under threat around 1900. Besides the so-called holistic protest against the local…
Mindful Practices
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Experimentalsysteme in den biologisch‐medizinischen Wissenschaften
Kurt‐Reinhard Biermann
Mindful Practices
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Medical Science in the Light of a Flawed Study of the Holocaust
In her PhD thesis Reading Fleck: Questions on Philosophy and Science (Hedfors, 2006) and her papers based on it, Eva Hedfors proposes a sci entifically informed reading of Ludwik Fleck that aims to contest the (puta tive) mythology of Fleck. According to Hedfors, Fleck is believed to have been an important scientist. However, a careful reading of his scientific papers, she claims, reveals that Fleck's studies were poorly done, often meaningless a…
Skulls, Brains, and Memorial Culture
ArgumentIn this paper I will argue that the scientific investigation of skulls and brains of geniuses went hand in hand with hagiographical celebrations of scientists. My analysis starts with late-eighteenth century anatomists and anthropologists who highlighted quantitative parameters such as the size and weight of the brain in order to explain intellectual differences between women and men and Europeans and non-Europeans, geniuses and ordinary …
Cultivating the Cortex in German Neuroanatomy
Argument The cerebral localization of mental functions is one of the centerpieces of modern brain research. Though the localization paradigm in its cultural and social interwovenness has been characterized as successful in the last third of the nineteenth century by a variety of historians of the neurosciences, there is also general agreement that localization came under threat around 1900. Besides the so-called holistic protest against the local…
Perception, knowledge and freedom in the age of extremes
Toward a History of Attention in Culture and Science
As a direct effect of the omnipresence of the new media, attention has become a central focus of interest. Since the spectrum of visual stimuli and entertainment has become so broad, curiosity, pleasure and admiration are no longer regarded as virtues and passions to be stimulated and satisfied. The problem is rather how to acquire and manage more and more information in shorter and shorter periods of time. In this situation, attention is so prec…
Experimentalsysteme in den biologisch‐medizinischen Wissenschaften
Kurt‐Reinhard Biermann
Cultivating the Cortex in German Neuroanatomy
Argument The cerebral localization of mental functions is one of the centerpieces of modern brain research. Though the localization paradigm in its cultural and social interwovenness has been characterized as successful in the last third of the nineteenth century by a variety of historians of the neurosciences, there is also general agreement that localization came under threat around 1900. Besides the so-called holistic protest against the local…
Mindful Practices
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Toward a History of Attention in Culture and Science
As a direct effect of the omnipresence of the new media, attention has become a central focus of interest. Since the spectrum of visual stimuli and entertainment has become so broad, curiosity, pleasure and admiration are no longer regarded as virtues and passions to be stimulated and satisfied. The problem is rather how to acquire and manage more and more information in shorter and shorter periods of time. In this situation, attention is so prec…
Skulls, Brains, and Memorial Culture
ArgumentIn this paper I will argue that the scientific investigation of skulls and brains of geniuses went hand in hand with hagiographical celebrations of scientists. My analysis starts with late-eighteenth century anatomists and anthropologists who highlighted quantitative parameters such as the size and weight of the brain in order to explain intellectual differences between women and men and Europeans and non-Europeans, geniuses and ordinary …
The World as Laboratory and Parliament – Bruno Latour's Political Ecology as Emerging from Science Studies Die Welt als Labor und Versammlungsort – Bruno Latours politische Ökologie aus dem Geiste der…
The historical and philosophical study of science and technology has undergone significant change in the last 20 years. The new goal of this approach is to focus on practices and the material representations of scientific knowledge. Bruno Latour, one of the main proponents of Science Studies, has broadened this new approach to a "symmetrical anthropology", which tries to overcome traditional distinctions such as nature and society, subject and ob…
Medical Science in the Light of a Flawed Study of the Holocaust
In her PhD thesis Reading Fleck: Questions on Philosophy and Science (Hedfors, 2006) and her papers based on it, Eva Hedfors proposes a sci entifically informed reading of Ludwik Fleck that aims to contest the (puta tive) mythology of Fleck. According to Hedfors, Fleck is believed to have been an important scientist. However, a careful reading of his scientific papers, she claims, reveals that Fleck's studies were poorly done, often meaningless a…
Das Unbewusste zwischen Subversion und neurowissenschaftlichem Biedermeier
Cómo funciona la mente
Este trabajo ofrece un repaso de la historia de la visualización de los procesos mentales a través de la descripción de las diferentes tecnologías desarrolladas desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días destinadas a representar la actividad cerebral
Perception, knowledge and freedom in the age of extremes
Räume des Wissens
Nachbemerkung
Unkomplizierte Bilder
Autorinnen und Autoren
Preliminary Material
Kindler Kompakt Klassiker der Naturwissenschaften
Dieser Band informiert über die zentralen Werke der Naturwissenschaften von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart z.B. von Euklid, Kopernikus, Galilei, Newton, Linné, Lavoisier, Darwin, Mendel, Hertz, Einstein
Kindler Kompakt
Einwegbilder
Bildkritik befasst sich üblicherweise mit Bildern, die aufbewahrt und gehütet, archiviert und dokumentiert werden. Was aber ist mit Bildern, denen kein dauerhafter Wert zugebilligt wird? Einwegbilder generieren ihren Wert in der kurzen Dauer, in der sie ihre Funktion erfüllen. Ihnen scheinen eindeutige und ausschließliche Rezeptions- und Gebrauchsweisen eingeschrieben zu sein. Eintrittskarten werden entwertet, Briefmarken abgestempelt, Plakate üb…
Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte II
Views on History of Science II . This essay makes a claim for a new political awareness in the history of science, which goes beyond the practical turn that shaped the field in the last 25 years. This revision should take into consideration both new hostile political circumstances and new conditions for academic publishing after the digital revolution
Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Tom Holert, “ca.1972” Gewalt – Umwelt – Identität – Methode
In recent years, we have seen a couple of books that cover a single year. This genre of year-based historiography has been repeatedly criticized for presenting years as if they were a historical turning point, of which the reader had not yet been aware. In the case of Tom Holert’s new book, this would be a misleading. 1972 was not a particularly spectacular year, and Holert is not interested in creating a homogenous image. Instead, he presents a …
The Mirror and the Mind
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