Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.
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Cultural Inquiry, 33
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X
Contents
Transferring Models Between the Arts and the Sciences
Models as Media of Worlding in Sadie Benning and Fernand Deligny
Abstraction as Strategy for Worldmaking
The Slime Mould’s Many Bodies, or Modelling Networks with Physarum polycephalum
Performing Models
Persistence: Model Asylum Narratives and a Recognizable ‘Transgenderness’
The Statistical Cloud of Race: Lancelot Hogben’s Anti-Eugenics between Populations and Organisms
Crises in Modelling: Articulations of the Romanian Labour Market in the Long 1990s
Models, Markets, and Artificial Intelligence: A Brief History of our Speculative Present
Large Language Models, Parrots, and Children: Modelling Speech, Text, and Learning Processes
Modelling at the Margins
Aesthetic Modelling at the Limit of the Human Montage