Strung together [electronic resource] : the cultural currency of string theory as a scientific imaginary / Sean Miller.
2013
PS509.S3 M55 2013eb
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Strung together [electronic resource] : the cultural currency of string theory as a scientific imaginary / Sean Miller.
Author
Miller, Sean, 1969-
ISBN
9780472028962 electronic bk
9780472118663
9780472118663
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.
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English
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1 online resource (256 p.)
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PS509.S3 M55 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.8/0356
Summary
"In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable to it as a scientific discourse. While mathematical arguments provide precise prompts for physical intervention in the world, the imaginary that supplements mathematical argument within string theory technical discourse allows theorists to imagine themselves interacting with the cosmos as an abstract space in such a way that strings and branes as phenomena become substantiated and legitimized. And it is precisely this sort of imaginary--which Miller calls a scientific imaginary--duly substantiated and acculturated, that survives the move from string theory technical discourse to popularizations and ultimately to popular and literary discourses. In effect, a string theory imaginary legitimizes the science itself and helps to facilitate a virtual domestication of a cosmos that was heretofore remote, alien, and incomprehensible"--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
A return to the eleventh dimension: string theory as a scientific imaginary
The romance of encounter: string theory technical discourse
Accessibility and authority: string theory popularizations
The cosmic and domestic: adaptations of string theory in literature
Strung together: string theory in contemporary globalized culture.
The romance of encounter: string theory technical discourse
Accessibility and authority: string theory popularizations
The cosmic and domestic: adaptations of string theory in literature
Strung together: string theory in contemporary globalized culture.