The More Manipulations, the Better
The More Manipulations, the Better
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操纵越多越好
DOI:
10.7551/mitpress/9780262525381.003.0022
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
B. Latour
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作者:
B. Latour
ing of invariants are what happens in both perceiving and knowing. To perceive the environment and to conceive it are different in degree but not in kind. One is continuous with the other.’ (p. 258). The research program Gibson proposed many years ago so radically, has not yet been completed: ‘The very notion of an image as a flattened-out object, a sort of pancake of a solid body, is shown to be misleading. It begins to appear that most of what has been written about pictures and images over the centuries is misleading, or hopelessly vague. We should forget it all and start fresh. The information for the perception of an object is not its image. The information in light to specify something does not have to resemble it, or copy it, or be a simulacrum or even an exact projection. Nothing is copied in the light to the eye of an observer, not the shape of a thing, not the surface of it, not its substance, not its color, and certainly not its motion. But all these things are specified in the light.’ (p. 304). Only once the mimetic and scopic obsession for an image as a copy has been put aside, will it be possible to study scientific imagery. Then, the magnificent body of work done over the years by so many scholars on so many aspects of the joint history of art, science and P-158 Woolgar Visual 4 perception in order to foreground the visual in scientific practice will really have come to fruition.