Haptic Visions: Rhetorics of the Digital Image, Information, and Nanotechnology

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Valerie Hanson Visual Rhetoric Edited by David Blakesley (Founding Editor: Marguerite Helmers) Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-550-7 (paperback, $30); 978-1-60235-551-4 (hardcover, $60); 978-1-60235-552-1 (PDF, $20) © 2015 by Parlor Press. 226 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying "In Haptic Visions , Valerie Hanson provides a careful and far-reaching study of the discourses and practices of nanotechnology, but its implications are not limited to the case example at hand, which is fascinating in its own right and deserves to be read by students and researchers who are interested in the rhetorical dynamics of science. Hanson's original and insightful analysis of the contexts surrounding the scanning tunneling microscope also opens new ways of thinking about visuals, about visual production and reception, and about the role of persuasion in scientific knowledge-making. This book is a must-read for anyone with interests in the overlapping areas of rhetoric, science, and the visual." —Stuart Selber, The Pennsylvania State University "We see by touching, we touch by seeing. This used to be true only metaphorically. Nanotechnology and other contemporary technosciences produce knowledge and employ instruments that render touch visible, literally. Valerie Hanson's Haptic Visions: Rhetorics of the Digital Image, Information, and Nanotechnology explores the new ways of relating ourselves to the world and participating in what we observe. Original in its approach and insightful in its analysis, Haptic Visions forges new connections between rhetoric, visual culture studies, and the philosophy of technoscience." —Alfred Nordmann, Institut für Philosophie,Technische Universität Darmstadt and the University of South Carolina. "Valerie Hanson scans the nooks and crannies of the human scale language and images with which nanoscale science has begun