the objects of molecular biology are becoming tangible and workable in new ways. With this shift from reading and writing one-dimensional genetic codes to modeling and interpreting the functions of three-dimensional and temporally dynamic protein molecules come new practical and conceptual hurdles for researchers and their students.
Moving Past Latour?
Emoboyment of knowledge
“Diane carries more than a ‘mental image’ of what a molecule should look like in her head: seeing, feeling, and moving with the chemical constraints of the molecule, she has embodied molecular forms”
Thick description (Geertz, 1973)
“requires attending to the corporeal and affective entanglements of researchers with available concepts and modeling media, and with the visualization machinery they entrain on living substances.”
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