Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Explore the 2011 issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews!

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ISR is a quarterly journal that aims to set contemporary and historical developments in the sciences and technology into their wider social and cultural context and to illuminate their interrelations with the humanities and arts. It seeks out contributions that measure up to the highest excellence in scholarship but that also speak to an audience of intelligent non-specialists. It actively explores the differing trajectories of the disciplines and practices in its purview, to clarify what each is attempting to do in its own terms, so that constructive dialogue across them is strengthened. It focuses whenever possible on conceptual bridge-building and collaborative research that nevertheless respect disciplinary variation. ISR features thematic issues on broad topics attractive across the disciplines and publishes special issues derived from wide-ranging interdisciplinary colloquia and conferences.

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Table of Contents

Enigma rebus: Prolegomena to an archaeology of algorithmic artefact, David Link

Schoenberg, serialism and cognition: Whose fault if No one listens?, Philip Ball

Interdisciplinarity as critical Inquiry: Visualizing the Art/Bioscience interface, Andrew S Yang

Socio-Cultural characteristics of usability of bioinformatics databases and tools, Conor Douglas; Rebecca Goulding; Lily Farris; Janet Atkinson-Grosjean

Placebo: no longer a phantom response, Charles Pasternak

ESSAY REVIEW: Excavating the Future: Taking an `Archaeological' approach to technology, James G R Cronin

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