Galison’s /Image and Logic/, Part 2: The Trading Zone
Download MP3Galison uses the metaphor of cultures meeting to trade to describe how, say, experimentalists and theorists collaborate. He describes procedures, machines, and diagrams as akin to pidgin trading languages.
Peter Galison, Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, 1997
Credits
Roman coin depicting the harbor at Ostia, from the title page of The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century, translated by Wilfred H. Schoff, 1912. Source unknown, but the entire book is public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Credits
Roman coin depicting the harbor at Ostia, from the title page of The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century, translated by Wilfred H. Schoff, 1912. Source unknown, but the entire book is public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.
