Browsing by Author "Roosth, Hannah"
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Biobricks and Crocheted Coral: Dispatches from the Life Sciences in the Age of Fabrication
Roosth, Sophia (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013)What 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 ... -
Evolutionary Yarns in Seahorse Valley: Living Tissues, Wooly Textiles, Theoretical Biologies
Roosth, Sophia (Duke University Press, 2013)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 ... -
The Godfather, Part II
Roosth, Sophia (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013) -
Life Forms: A Keyword Entry
Helmreich, Stefan; Roosth, Sophia (University of California Press, 2010)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 ... -
Life, Not Itself: Inanimacy and the Limits of Biology
Roosth, Sophia Sophia (MIT Press - Journals, 2014) -
Of Foams and Formalisms: Scientific Expertise and Craft Practice in Molecular Gastronomy
Roosth, Sophia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)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 ... -
Screaming Yeast: Sonocytology, Cytoplasmic Milieus, and Cellular Subjectivities
Roosth, Sophia (The University of Chicago Press, 2009)