Morana Alač
Biographic Data
| ID | 1679647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morana Alač |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morana |
| FAMILY NAME | Alač |
| SIGNATURE | ALAČ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4980-3993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism
The article attends to everyday practices in a laboratory of neural genetics that studies olfaction, with the fruit fly as its model organism. Practices in neural genetics exhibit one of the 'post' aspects in post-genomic science - a turn to the environment. To get at how laboratory members engage body-environment continuities, I pay attention to an occasion of designing experimental chambers for an optogenetics study. As practitioners deal with …
Parler à un grille-pain
L’intensification des discussions sur la relation problématique entre l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et la société est récente. Néanmoins, ces discussions restent partielles tant qu’elles ne tiennent pas compte de la façon dont nous vivons les technologies propres à l’IA, notamment dans des situations banales qui concernent nos activités quotidiennes. En considérant l’importance d’une telle prise de conscience, cet article se concentre sur l’In…
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics II
This article provides an experience-oriented relational account that goes beyond a human control of the world. Rather than working with the notion of intersubjectivity (commonly evoked in sensory STS, and still conserving the subject/object opposition ), the article reports on how the sense of smell affords a rethinking of our relationship with the world. It does so by challenging the assumption of olfactory ineffability as it turns to a place wh…
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I
This article provides an experience-oriented relational account that goes beyond a human control of the world. Rather than working with the notion of intersubjectivity (commonly evoked in sensory STS, and still conserving the subject/object opposition), the article reports on how the sense of smell affords a rethinking of our relationship with the world. It does so by challenging the assumption of olfactory ineffability as it turns to a place who…
We like to talk about smell
Western languages have been marked by their lack of specialized vocabulary to express odor qualities, and thus it is stated that it is difficult – if not impossible – to talk about smell. To engage the issue of olfactory ineffability, this paper turns to actual instances of textual renderings of smell by paying attention to how the olfactory language of scent enthusiasts is rendered on the Internet. The methods that enthusiasts’ texts inscribe do…
Social robots
When a robot is social
Social roboticists design their robots to function as social agents in interaction with humans and other robots. Although we do not deny that the robot's design features are crucial for attaining this aim, we point to the relevance of spatial organization and coordination between the robot and the humans who interact with it. We recover these interactions through an observational study of a social robotics laboratory and examine them by applying …
Beyond Human
Moving Android
Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot's movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject-object reconfigurations, the paper explores how t…
Working with Brain Scans
A significant part of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) practice in neuroscience is spent in front of computer screens. To investigate the brain neuroscientists work with digital images. This paper recovers practical dealings with brain scans in fMRI laboratories to focus on the achievement of seeing in the digital realm. While looking at brain images, neuroscientists gesture and manipulate digital displays to manage and make sense of …
From trash to treasure
Cognitive Neuroscientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to generate digital images of the human brain. An fMRI image, as a final product of the scientific work, does not document movements and sounds that were present when such an image was recorded. Yet, a focus on actual moments of scientific practice reveals that such forgotten elements of practice can play important roles in understanding and knowledge acquisitio…
I See What You Are Saying
In cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to produce images of brain functions. These images play a central role in the practice of neuroscience. In this paper we are interested in how these brain images become understandable and meaningful for scientists. In order to explore this problem we observe how scientists use such semiotic resources as gesture, language, and material structure present in the socially…
When a robot is social
Social roboticists design their robots to function as social agents in interaction with humans and other robots. Although we do not deny that the robot's design features are crucial for attaining this aim, we point to the relevance of spatial organization and coordination between the robot and the humans who interact with it. We recover these interactions through an observational study of a social robotics laboratory and examine them by applying …
Working with Brain Scans
A significant part of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) practice in neuroscience is spent in front of computer screens. To investigate the brain neuroscientists work with digital images. This paper recovers practical dealings with brain scans in fMRI laboratories to focus on the achievement of seeing in the digital realm. While looking at brain images, neuroscientists gesture and manipulate digital displays to manage and make sense of …
Social robots
I See What You Are Saying
In cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to produce images of brain functions. These images play a central role in the practice of neuroscience. In this paper we are interested in how these brain images become understandable and meaningful for scientists. In order to explore this problem we observe how scientists use such semiotic resources as gesture, language, and material structure present in the socially…
Moving Android
Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot's movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject-object reconfigurations, the paper explores how t…
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I
This article provides an experience-oriented relational account that goes beyond a human control of the world. Rather than working with the notion of intersubjectivity (commonly evoked in sensory STS, and still conserving the subject/object opposition), the article reports on how the sense of smell affords a rethinking of our relationship with the world. It does so by challenging the assumption of olfactory ineffability as it turns to a place who…
From trash to treasure
Cognitive Neuroscientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to generate digital images of the human brain. An fMRI image, as a final product of the scientific work, does not document movements and sounds that were present when such an image was recorded. Yet, a focus on actual moments of scientific practice reveals that such forgotten elements of practice can play important roles in understanding and knowledge acquisitio…
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism
The article attends to everyday practices in a laboratory of neural genetics that studies olfaction, with the fruit fly as its model organism. Practices in neural genetics exhibit one of the 'post' aspects in post-genomic science - a turn to the environment. To get at how laboratory members engage body-environment continuities, I pay attention to an occasion of designing experimental chambers for an optogenetics study. As practitioners deal with …
I See What You Are Saying
In cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to produce images of brain functions. These images play a central role in the practice of neuroscience. In this paper we are interested in how these brain images become understandable and meaningful for scientists. In order to explore this problem we observe how scientists use such semiotic resources as gesture, language, and material structure present in the socially…
From trash to treasure
Cognitive Neuroscientists use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to generate digital images of the human brain. An fMRI image, as a final product of the scientific work, does not document movements and sounds that were present when such an image was recorded. Yet, a focus on actual moments of scientific practice reveals that such forgotten elements of practice can play important roles in understanding and knowledge acquisitio…
Working with Brain Scans
A significant part of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) practice in neuroscience is spent in front of computer screens. To investigate the brain neuroscientists work with digital images. This paper recovers practical dealings with brain scans in fMRI laboratories to focus on the achievement of seeing in the digital realm. While looking at brain images, neuroscientists gesture and manipulate digital displays to manage and make sense of …
Beyond Human
Moving Android
Social robotics studies embodied technologies designed for social interaction. This paper examines the implied idea of embodiment using as data a sequence in which practitioners of social robotics are involved in designing a robot's movement. The moments of learning and work in the laboratory enact the social body as material, dynamic, and multiparty: the body-in-interaction. In describing subject-object reconfigurations, the paper explores how t…
When a robot is social
Social roboticists design their robots to function as social agents in interaction with humans and other robots. Although we do not deny that the robot's design features are crucial for attaining this aim, we point to the relevance of spatial organization and coordination between the robot and the humans who interact with it. We recover these interactions through an observational study of a social robotics laboratory and examine them by applying …
Social robots
We like to talk about smell
Western languages have been marked by their lack of specialized vocabulary to express odor qualities, and thus it is stated that it is difficult – if not impossible – to talk about smell. To engage the issue of olfactory ineffability, this paper turns to actual instances of textual renderings of smell by paying attention to how the olfactory language of scent enthusiasts is rendered on the Internet. The methods that enthusiasts’ texts inscribe do…
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics II
This article provides an experience-oriented relational account that goes beyond a human control of the world. Rather than working with the notion of intersubjectivity (commonly evoked in sensory STS, and still conserving the subject/object opposition ), the article reports on how the sense of smell affords a rethinking of our relationship with the world. It does so by challenging the assumption of olfactory ineffability as it turns to a place wh…
Beyond intersubjectivity in olfactory psychophysics I
This article provides an experience-oriented relational account that goes beyond a human control of the world. Rather than working with the notion of intersubjectivity (commonly evoked in sensory STS, and still conserving the subject/object opposition), the article reports on how the sense of smell affords a rethinking of our relationship with the world. It does so by challenging the assumption of olfactory ineffability as it turns to a place who…
Parler à un grille-pain
L’intensification des discussions sur la relation problématique entre l’intelligence artificielle (IA) et la société est récente. Néanmoins, ces discussions restent partielles tant qu’elles ne tiennent pas compte de la façon dont nous vivons les technologies propres à l’IA, notamment dans des situations banales qui concernent nos activités quotidiennes. En considérant l’importance d’une telle prise de conscience, cet article se concentre sur l’In…
On body-environment continuities from a laboratory commensalism
The article attends to everyday practices in a laboratory of neural genetics that studies olfaction, with the fruit fly as its model organism. Practices in neural genetics exhibit one of the 'post' aspects in post-genomic science - a turn to the environment. To get at how laboratory members engage body-environment continuities, I pay attention to an occasion of designing experimental chambers for an optogenetics study. As practitioners deal with …
Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Cognitive science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)