Free Access 14

From 4th- 18th February 2013 Maney Publishing is running ‘Free Access 14’

For fourteen days Maney Publishing is making all journals in the Materials Science & Engineering Collection freely available. All those signed up to the Materials Science & Engineering mailing list will be given access to the content including special issues, archived content as well as the latest research.

Anyone can register for free access to the Collection, whether they’re a librarian, faculty member, researcher or student and activation of the trial takes a matter of seconds! Content will be accessible via a username and password on ingentaconnect. Sign-up on the Maney website to receive your login details: www.maneypublishing.com/fa14

Master and Servant in Technoscience: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 37.4

NEW ISSUE: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Vol. 37.4
December 2012

Editorial: Master and Servant in Technoscience 

Krajewski, Markus

Letter, Word, and Good Messengers: Towards an Archaeology of Remote Communication 

Stock, Markus

Little Helpers. About Demons, Angels and Other Servants 

Canales, Jimena; Krajewski, Markus

Architect and Service Architect: The Quarrel between Charles Barry and David Boswell Reid 

Gleich, Moritz

The Lives of Mechanical Servants 

Brandstetter, Thomas

The Extended Body of Stephen Hawking 

Mialet, Hélène

Read the issue here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/2012/00000037/00000004

Warren McCulloch and his Circle: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.3

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 37.3: Warren McCulloch and his Circle
September 2012
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/isr/latest

All articles in this issue are available free of charge.

Preface: The McCulloch Connections, pp. 201-202
Galison, Peter

Warren S. McCulloch and his Circle, pp. 203-205
Abraham, Tara H

Warren McCulloch's Turn to Cybernetics: What Walter Pitts Contributed,
pp. 206-217
Aizawa, Kenneth

Cybernetic Sense, pp. 218-236
Halpern, Orit

Warren McCulloch and the British Cyberneticians, pp. 237-253
Husbands, Phil; Holland, Owen

An Asymmetric Relationship: The Spirit of Kenneth Craik and the Work of
Warren McCulloch, pp. 254-268
Collins, Alan F

'The Materials of Science, the Ideas of Science, and the Poetry of
Science': Warren McCulloch and Jerry Lettvin, pp. 269-286
Abraham, Tara H

Launch of Digital Humanities in Practice

ISR's Communications Editor Julianne Nyhan and Editorial Board Member Melissa Terras have recently co-Edited Digital Humanities in Practice (Facet 2012)  

The book will be launched in London on 6 November and you can attend by reserving a place via Eventbrite:  http://dhinpractice.eventbrite.co.uk/  

More details about the book are available on the Publishers Website: 

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7661 

 It would be great to meet some of ISR's readers at the launch! 

Lecture: Machines of demanding grace

Prof Willard McCarty, Editor of ISR, will tonight (18/10/2012) deliver a lecture entitled 'Machines of demanding grace: speculations toward a book on the problem of digital interpretation'. It will take place in Senate House, London (room 246) from 17:30 - 19:30. Please do attend if you are in London town! 


Willard McCarty: 'Machines of demanding grace: speculations toward a book on the problem of digital interpretation'

The great anthropological question “What is man?”, raised by Immanuel Kant in 1800 and made the overarching question of philosophy, has been taken up in our time, for example, by Anthony Giddens’ exploration of the perilously negotiated process of “going-on being” in the reflexive construction of self (Modernity and Self-Identity, 1991); Ian Hacking’s dissolving away of the singular soul by probing multiple personality disorder (Rewriting the Soul, 1995); Giorgio Agamben’s “anthropological machine” evinced e.g. in Linnaeus’ homo sapiens, which he reads as denoting a creature in perpetual becoming (L’aperto, 2002); and G. E. R. Lloyd’s subtle navigations across cultures and centuries among the historical variants of “what counts as being human” (Being, Humanity and Understanding, 2012). If, then, the human is in perpetual re-formation, what is the role of computing and the technoscience it communicates? In this talk I will use Sigmund Freud’s notion of the “great outrages” perpetrated by the sciences on human self-love and the moral programme of science that it articulates to suggest tentatively a way in which the digital humanities might do better than supply data for interpretation that happens elsewhere by other means.

Biographical note: Willard McCarty, FRAI, is Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London and Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Western Sydney. He is Editor of Humanist and of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews and founding Convenor of the London Seminar (2006-2012). For more see www.mccarty.org.uk.

Now available for review: Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the public Sphere and the Arts (2012). Edited by Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko. Please contact Julianne Nyhan directly if you are interested in reviewing this book and have relevant expertise.  


 

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews Editorial Board Member presents "Materials: How they Work" on BBC 4

ISR Editorial Board Member, Professor Mark Miodownik, is presenting a television series entitled, “Materials: How they Work” which is currently being broadcast on BBC 4. In the first programme, “Metal: How it works”, Mark travelled to Israel and learned how we first extracted copper from dull rock and used it to shape our world. He revealed how our eternal quest for lighter, stronger metals led us to forge hard, sharp steel from malleable iron and to create complex alloys in order to conquer the skies. You can still view this episode, along with Episode 2, "Plastic: How it Works", for a limited time at the following link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fm490

The final episode in the series, entitled "Ceramics: How They Work", is to be broadcast on Monday 16th April 2012 on BBC4. Don't miss it!