I’ve been mulling over the boundaries of #SciComm, in the wake of a book review I published this week on The Volta Blog.
The book I reviewed, Spring Ulmer’s The Age of Virtual Reproduction (Essay Press 2009), is a riveting eloquent set of “meditations on torture, slaughter, and the severity of so many human relationships.”* It is also a book fixated on relentless technological development and scientific discovery (e.g. photography, nuclear weapons).
But, there isn’t any explicit science in the book.
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