Things that talk : object lessons from art and science
Things that talk : object lessons from art and science
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会说话的事物：艺术和科学的实物教训
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2004
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L. Daston
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文章研究了九个有趣的对象，当物质和意义交汇时，它们变得雄辩。想象一个没有东西的世界。没有什么可描述的，没有什么可解释的，评论，解释，或抱怨。如果没有东西，我们就不会说话;我们就会变得像事物所声称的那样沉默。在九篇原创文章中，国际知名的艺术和科学历史学家试图理解物体如何在不失去其坚韧不拔的物质性的情况下变得具有意义。每一篇文章都忠于事物的特殊性，挑出一个对象进行密切关注：博世的绘画，独立的柱子，普鲁士岛，肥皂泡，早期照片，玻璃花，罗夏墨迹，剪报，杰克逊波洛克的绘画。每一个都是一个节点，围绕着这个节点，意义厚积薄发。但不是任何意义：这些东西是由什么组成的，以及它们是如何组成的，塑造了它们的意义。这些东西既不是符号学的纯粹文本，也不是实证主义的野蛮对象，它们充满了文化意义。当事物融合了物质和意义时，它们就变得健谈;当它们的物质和意义不再融合时，它们就陷入无语。这本书中考察的九个对象中的每一个都有其历史时刻，当这个东西与那个想法的匹配似乎是不可抗拒的。在这些时刻，某些事物会成为令人着迷、联想和无尽思考的对象;它们开始交谈。说话的东西转瞬即逝，实现了完美语言的梦想，在这种语言中，文字和世界融为一体。作者：Lorraine Daston，Peter Galison，Anke te Heesen，Caroline A. Jones，Joseph Leo Koerner，Antoine Picon，Simon Schaffer，Joel Snyder，and M.作者声明：Norton and Elaine M.睿的洛林·达斯顿是德国柏林马克斯·普朗克科学史研究所所长。她是《奇迹与自然秩序，1150-1750》（Zone Books）的合著者。
Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. True to the particularity of things, each of the essays singles out one object for close attention: a Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early photographs, glass flowers, Rorschach blots, newspaper clippings, paintings by Jackson Pollock. Each is revealed to be a node around which meanings accrete thickly. But not just any meanings: what these things are made of and how they are made shape what they can mean. Neither the pure texts of semiotics nor the brute objects of positivism, these things are saturated with cultural significance. Things become talkative when they fuse matter and meaning; they lapse into speechlessness when their matter and meanings no longer mesh. Each of the nine objects examined in this book had its historical moment, when the match of this thing to that thought seemed irresistible. At these junctures, certain things become objects of fascination, association, and endless consideration; they begin to talk. Things that talk fleetingly realize the dream of a perfect language, in which words and world merge. Essays Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Anke te Heesen, Caroline A. Jones, Joseph Leo Koerner, Antoine Picon, Simon Schaffer, Joel Snyder, and M. Norton and Elaine M. Wise. Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books).