Toward an Algorithmic Realism
The Evolving Nature of Astronomical Knowledge in Representations of the Non-Visible
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10278298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Mackinnon (0000-0002-1448-497X, Lee Mackinnon (researcher), 46 Harold Road, London, SE19 3PL, U.K.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 225-231 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00764 |
| OpenAlex | W2080293251 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
This paper explores the gathering of radio, optical and electromagnetic wavelength data in assembling images of the Crab Nebula (1844–2000). The author considers the expanding fields of astronomical and astrophysical knowledge to which such data analysis has given rise. She suggests that the data that makes such imaging possible moves us further from conventions of the optical real toward an algorithmic realism, alluding to time-scales that delimit and circumvent human time. Thus Cartesian metaphysics is displaced—the human becomes one agent among many in a process of algorithmic inference
Astronomical Objects · Astronomy · Cartesian coordinate system · Crab Nebula · Epistemology · Geometry · Inference · Metaphysics · Physics · Process (computing) · Realism · Theoretical physics · Computer Science · History and Developments in Astronomy · History of Science and Medicine · Mathematics · Philosophy · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |