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Breaking and Making Models Ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting, and Claudia Peppel
Practically anything can be a model of or for something else. What characterizes models is rather their specific reductive relationality, which often promotes understanding but is always generative rather than merely representational. The essays in Breaking and Making Models engage with the normative and performative qualities of models, their aesthetic and political dimensions, and their world-making potentials. Bringing such perspectives into a broad interdisciplinary dialogue, this book explores ways to work creatively with models.
2025 | Cultural Inquiry, 33. relationality; reduction; scientific paradigms; simulation; abstraction; worldmaking; representation; modelling practices; performativity; interdisciplinary approach to knowledge