Chunglin Kwa
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 131708 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chunglin Kwa |
| PRENOMES | Chunglin |
| SOBRENOME | Kwa |
| ASSINATURA | KWA C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Environmental Sciences
An “ecological” view of styles of science and of art
Why I am NOT a scientist
Reflections on Dr. Olga Amsterdamska
Painting and Photographing Landscapes
Painting and Photographing Landscapes: Pictorial Conventions and Gestalts Chunglin Kwa (bio) Landscapes have been painted and photographed, they are studied by geographers and ecologists, and they can be designed by landscape architects. The concept of “landscape” hangs ambiguously between a visual representation and a natural entity. Historically, the primacy was for the visual aspect. When we designate natural scenery as “landscape,” we are in …
Responses
Donna C. Mehos, Science & Culture for Members Only
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Interdisciplinarity and Postmodernity in the Environmental Sciences
Postmodern science has aspects of both technoscience and interdisciplinary science, but is described exhaustively by neither. Twenty‐five years ago, Lyotard expected that postmodern science would reinforce our capacity to endure incommensurability. This paper suggests that the reverse is true also. Ignoring incommensurability is a precondition for the emergence of postmodern science. The bias in several large international science programs since …
Local Ecologies and Global Science
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), a large international research programme, served to set the research agenda of a number of environmental sciences around the issue of global warming and global change. This paper examines the impact of the interdisciplinary cooperation within the IGBP on ecology and the ecologists’ response. Ecology was an integral part of the IGBP from the beginning, yet it was sometimes in uneasy cohabitat…
Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscape
Landscape took on a new meaning through the new science of plant geography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1857). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, "landscape" was foremost a painterly genre. Slowly, painted landscapes came to bear on natural surroundings, but by 1800 it was still not common to designate sites as "landscapes." Humboldt looked at plant vegetation with a painterly gaze. Artists, according to him, could suggest in their w…
Modelling technologies of control
Representations of Nature Mediating Between Ecology and Science Policy
This paper considers some aspects of the early history of the American contribution to the International Biological Programme (IBP), ecology's only venture into `Big Science'. It is argued that American ecologists were successful in obtaining generous funding for the IBP from the US Congress, thanks to a shared understanding of the way in which controlling nature was to be accomplished, expressed in the metaphor of the `cybernetic machine'. To su…
Local Ecologies and Global Science
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), a large international research programme, served to set the research agenda of a number of environmental sciences around the issue of global warming and global change. This paper examines the impact of the interdisciplinary cooperation within the IGBP on ecology and the ecologists’ response. Ecology was an integral part of the IGBP from the beginning, yet it was sometimes in uneasy cohabitat…
Representations of Nature Mediating Between Ecology and Science Policy
This paper considers some aspects of the early history of the American contribution to the International Biological Programme (IBP), ecology's only venture into `Big Science'. It is argued that American ecologists were successful in obtaining generous funding for the IBP from the US Congress, thanks to a shared understanding of the way in which controlling nature was to be accomplished, expressed in the metaphor of the `cybernetic machine'. To su…
Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscape
Landscape took on a new meaning through the new science of plant geography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1857). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, "landscape" was foremost a painterly genre. Slowly, painted landscapes came to bear on natural surroundings, but by 1800 it was still not common to designate sites as "landscapes." Humboldt looked at plant vegetation with a painterly gaze. Artists, according to him, could suggest in their w…
Modelling technologies of control
An “ecological” view of styles of science and of art
Representations of Nature Mediating Between Ecology and Science Policy
This paper considers some aspects of the early history of the American contribution to the International Biological Programme (IBP), ecology's only venture into `Big Science'. It is argued that American ecologists were successful in obtaining generous funding for the IBP from the US Congress, thanks to a shared understanding of the way in which controlling nature was to be accomplished, expressed in the metaphor of the `cybernetic machine'. To su…
Modelling technologies of control
Interdisciplinarity and Postmodernity in the Environmental Sciences
Postmodern science has aspects of both technoscience and interdisciplinary science, but is described exhaustively by neither. Twenty‐five years ago, Lyotard expected that postmodern science would reinforce our capacity to endure incommensurability. This paper suggests that the reverse is true also. Ignoring incommensurability is a precondition for the emergence of postmodern science. The bias in several large international science programs since …
Local Ecologies and Global Science
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), a large international research programme, served to set the research agenda of a number of environmental sciences around the issue of global warming and global change. This paper examines the impact of the interdisciplinary cooperation within the IGBP on ecology and the ecologists’ response. Ecology was an integral part of the IGBP from the beginning, yet it was sometimes in uneasy cohabitat…
Alexander von Humboldt's invention of the natural landscape
Landscape took on a new meaning through the new science of plant geography of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1857). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, "landscape" was foremost a painterly genre. Slowly, painted landscapes came to bear on natural surroundings, but by 1800 it was still not common to designate sites as "landscapes." Humboldt looked at plant vegetation with a painterly gaze. Artists, according to him, could suggest in their w…
Responses
Donna C. Mehos, Science & Culture for Members Only
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Painting and Photographing Landscapes
Painting and Photographing Landscapes: Pictorial Conventions and Gestalts Chunglin Kwa (bio) Landscapes have been painted and photographed, they are studied by geographers and ecologists, and they can be designed by landscape architects. The concept of “landscape” hangs ambiguously between a visual representation and a natural entity. Historically, the primacy was for the visual aspect. When we designate natural scenery as “landscape,” we are in …
Reflections on Dr. Olga Amsterdamska
Why I am NOT a scientist
An “ecological” view of styles of science and of art
Environmental Sciences
Computer Science (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Biology (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Biosphere (2 obras)