Sophia Roosth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230657 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sophia Roosth |
| PRENOMES | Sophia |
| SOBRENOME | Roosth |
| ASSINATURA | ROOSTH S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7591-5043 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality
The article is an ethnographic travelogue of time spent in Oman in 2018 with the Ediacaran subcommission. This is a collective of Earth scientists who globe-trot in search of particular rocks that might be reliable markers for subdividing the long stretch of the Ediacaran period (which lasted ninety-four million years) into intervals that mark global transformations in Earth history. To do so, these scientists are reliant upon the amenability of …
Turning to stone
Nineteen Hertz and Below
Nineteen Hertz and BelowAn Infrasonic History of the Twentieth Century Sophia Roosth (bio) This is a history of a sound you cannot hear. Human hearing ranges, on average, between twenty and twenty thousand hertz, and infrasound vibrates at a frequency lower than twenty hertz, ever so slightly below the envelope of human audition.1 Infrasound first rattled the scientific world in 1883, when the explosion of Krakatoa between the Indonesian islands …
Sounding the Limits of Life
Sounding the Limits of Life
Sounding the Limits of Life
What is life? What is water? What is sound? This book investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, bre…
Life, Not Itself
October 01 2014 Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology Sophia Roosth Sophia Roosth Sophia Roosth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled Synthetic: How Life Got Made, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Informat…
Biobricks and Crocheted Coral
ArgumentWhat does "life" become at a moment when biological inquiry proceeds by manufacturing biological artifacts and systems? In this article, I juxtapose two radically different communities, synthetic biologists and Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef crafters (HCCR). Synthetic biology is a decade-old research initiative that seeks to merge biology with engineering and experimental research with manufacture. The HCCR is a distributed venture of thre…
Of Foams and Formalisms
This article reports on "molecular gastronomy," a food movement whose practitioners-chemists who study food and chefs who apply their results-define as the application of the scientific method and laboratory apparatuses to further cooking. Molecular gastronomy offers one example of how scientific rationales sometimes percolate outside professional scientific fields. I explore what happens when the explanatory ground occupied by "culture" is suppl…
Evolutionary Yarns in Seahorse Valley
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (HCCR) is a distributed venture of thousands of women who cooperatively fabricate a collection of yarn and plastic coral reefs. Under the auspices of the Institute For Figuring, these crafters use the technique of "hyperbolic crochet" invented by geometer Daina Taimina to make wooly reefs, with the aim of drawing attention to the menace that climate change poses to the world's coral reefs. Hyperbolic crochet is a…
Feminist Theory Out of Science
Feminist Theory Out of Science theory all the way down."Theories are," as Karen Barad writes in this special issue, "living and breathing reconfigurings of the world" (207).Barad offers theory as a form of experiment, to which we might add that experiment is a mode of theory making.The world, it seems, is inhabited by theories of itself.The corals and nudibranchs about which Sophia Roosth writes in these pages, for example, do not simply manifest…
Life Forms
We deliver a "keyword" account of the term life form as it has been used in natural philosophy and biology over the last two hundred years, beginning with its appearance in German as Lebensform. We argue that life form has, since its earliest enunciations, pointed to a space of possibility within which life might take shape, but that the way that space is imagined and theorized in biology has transformed substantially; life form originated as a t…
Screaming Yeast
The little things in life
Screaming Yeast
Of Foams and Formalisms
This article reports on "molecular gastronomy," a food movement whose practitioners-chemists who study food and chefs who apply their results-define as the application of the scientific method and laboratory apparatuses to further cooking. Molecular gastronomy offers one example of how scientific rationales sometimes percolate outside professional scientific fields. I explore what happens when the explanatory ground occupied by "culture" is suppl…
Life Forms
We deliver a "keyword" account of the term life form as it has been used in natural philosophy and biology over the last two hundred years, beginning with its appearance in German as Lebensform. We argue that life form has, since its earliest enunciations, pointed to a space of possibility within which life might take shape, but that the way that space is imagined and theorized in biology has transformed substantially; life form originated as a t…
Feminist Theory Out of Science
Feminist Theory Out of Science theory all the way down."Theories are," as Karen Barad writes in this special issue, "living and breathing reconfigurings of the world" (207).Barad offers theory as a form of experiment, to which we might add that experiment is a mode of theory making.The world, it seems, is inhabited by theories of itself.The corals and nudibranchs about which Sophia Roosth writes in these pages, for example, do not simply manifest…
Biobricks and Crocheted Coral
ArgumentWhat does "life" become at a moment when biological inquiry proceeds by manufacturing biological artifacts and systems? In this article, I juxtapose two radically different communities, synthetic biologists and Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef crafters (HCCR). Synthetic biology is a decade-old research initiative that seeks to merge biology with engineering and experimental research with manufacture. The HCCR is a distributed venture of thre…
Life, Not Itself
October 01 2014 Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology Sophia Roosth Sophia Roosth Sophia Roosth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled Synthetic: How Life Got Made, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Informat…
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality
The article is an ethnographic travelogue of time spent in Oman in 2018 with the Ediacaran subcommission. This is a collective of Earth scientists who globe-trot in search of particular rocks that might be reliable markers for subdividing the long stretch of the Ediacaran period (which lasted ninety-four million years) into intervals that mark global transformations in Earth history. To do so, these scientists are reliant upon the amenability of …
Nineteen Hertz and Below
Nineteen Hertz and BelowAn Infrasonic History of the Twentieth Century Sophia Roosth (bio) This is a history of a sound you cannot hear. Human hearing ranges, on average, between twenty and twenty thousand hertz, and infrasound vibrates at a frequency lower than twenty hertz, ever so slightly below the envelope of human audition.1 Infrasound first rattled the scientific world in 1883, when the explosion of Krakatoa between the Indonesian islands …
Turning to stone
Screaming Yeast
Life Forms
We deliver a "keyword" account of the term life form as it has been used in natural philosophy and biology over the last two hundred years, beginning with its appearance in German as Lebensform. We argue that life form has, since its earliest enunciations, pointed to a space of possibility within which life might take shape, but that the way that space is imagined and theorized in biology has transformed substantially; life form originated as a t…
Evolutionary Yarns in Seahorse Valley
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef (HCCR) is a distributed venture of thousands of women who cooperatively fabricate a collection of yarn and plastic coral reefs. Under the auspices of the Institute For Figuring, these crafters use the technique of "hyperbolic crochet" invented by geometer Daina Taimina to make wooly reefs, with the aim of drawing attention to the menace that climate change poses to the world's coral reefs. Hyperbolic crochet is a…
Feminist Theory Out of Science
Feminist Theory Out of Science theory all the way down."Theories are," as Karen Barad writes in this special issue, "living and breathing reconfigurings of the world" (207).Barad offers theory as a form of experiment, to which we might add that experiment is a mode of theory making.The world, it seems, is inhabited by theories of itself.The corals and nudibranchs about which Sophia Roosth writes in these pages, for example, do not simply manifest…
Biobricks and Crocheted Coral
ArgumentWhat does "life" become at a moment when biological inquiry proceeds by manufacturing biological artifacts and systems? In this article, I juxtapose two radically different communities, synthetic biologists and Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef crafters (HCCR). Synthetic biology is a decade-old research initiative that seeks to merge biology with engineering and experimental research with manufacture. The HCCR is a distributed venture of thre…
Of Foams and Formalisms
This article reports on "molecular gastronomy," a food movement whose practitioners-chemists who study food and chefs who apply their results-define as the application of the scientific method and laboratory apparatuses to further cooking. Molecular gastronomy offers one example of how scientific rationales sometimes percolate outside professional scientific fields. I explore what happens when the explanatory ground occupied by "culture" is suppl…
Life, Not Itself
October 01 2014 Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology Sophia Roosth Sophia Roosth Sophia Roosth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her first book, an ethnographic account of synthetic biology titled Synthetic: How Life Got Made, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Informat…
Sounding the Limits of Life
Sounding the Limits of Life
Sounding the Limits of Life
What is life? What is water? What is sound? This book investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social. In the age of synthetic biology, rising sea levels, and new technologies of listening, these phenomena stretch toward their conceptual snapping points, bre…
Turning to stone
Nineteen Hertz and Below
Nineteen Hertz and BelowAn Infrasonic History of the Twentieth Century Sophia Roosth (bio) This is a history of a sound you cannot hear. Human hearing ranges, on average, between twenty and twenty thousand hertz, and infrasound vibrates at a frequency lower than twenty hertz, ever so slightly below the envelope of human audition.1 Infrasound first rattled the scientific world in 1883, when the explosion of Krakatoa between the Indonesian islands …
The Sultan and the Golden Spike; or, What Stratigraphers Can Teach Us about Temporality
The article is an ethnographic travelogue of time spent in Oman in 2018 with the Ediacaran subcommission. This is a collective of Earth scientists who globe-trot in search of particular rocks that might be reliable markers for subdividing the long stretch of the Ediacaran period (which lasted ninety-four million years) into intervals that mark global transformations in Earth history. To do so, these scientists are reliant upon the amenability of …
The little things in life
Archaeology (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Biology (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Coral reef (3 obras)