Visual Studies for Modelers

In the framework of the conference Modeling Science, I presented a paper entitled ‘The view from nowhere: digital visualizations of science and the God-trick’. The audience was mainly made up of model and simulation builders, working from a very data-driven tradition. Many of them had a physics background, and very little affinity with social theory [...]

Realism

A while ago, at the workshop Visualising the Public Sphere: Ethics and Politics from YouTube to Google Earth,held on Wednesday 18 February 2009, we presented the project to an audience of VKS researchers and of philosophers from the University of Groningen.
One of the topics of discussion that came up in relation to our presentation [...]