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Appler, Vivian.

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Embodied Astronomies: Performances of Telescopes and Other Detection Devices.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Embodied Astronomies: Performances of Telescopes and Other Detection Devices./
Author:	Appler, Vivian.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	213 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-04A(E).
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3735231
ISBN:	9781339240602

Embodied Astronomies: Performances of Telescopes and Other Detection Devices.
Appler, Vivian.

Embodied Astronomies: Performances of Telescopes and Other Detection Devices. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 213 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Embodied performance is essential to the practice of astronomy. I propose that theatre provides a popular space in which people who are not science experts might participate in the production of science ideas. This process is particularly apparent when science machines are represented on the theatrical stage. My methods are drawn from cognitive theory, performance studies, and close readings of plays and other performance texts. This dissertation focuses on plays, performances, and films for which the telescope is central to the action of plots that explicitly deal with questions about the pursuit of the unknown.

ISBN: 9781339240602Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Theater.

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520 $a The first chapter, "History: Telescopic (mis)Information on the Early Modern Stage," examines the doubled narratives in Thomas Tomkis's Albumazar (1614) and Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon (1687). Both of these plays textually perform points of view that are skeptical of the usefulness of the telescope as applied to the practice of astronomy. Close readings of the scenes that feature telescopes reveal that the machines enact their own narratives within the metaenvironment of the theatre.
520 $a Radio-telescopes take the stage in the second chapter, "Criticism: Credit and Authority in the Performance of Trustworthy Astronomy." In this chapter, telescopes appear in plays and performances that stage social criticisms of the institutional practices of late twentieth century astronomy and its related, theoretical sibling, cosmology. Lauren Gunderson's play, Background (2003) and the film, Contact (1997), based on the novel by Carl Sagan, dramatize inequalities of access and authority that plague the performance of science in the domain of the laboratory.
520 $a The final chapter, "Praxis: Towards an Accessible Performance of Astronomy," examines performances from scientific and theatrical domains that explicitly endeavor to stage equitable science practice. The American astronomer Vera Rubin broke boundaries of access within her career, and publicly advocated for the inclusion of women and other minorities in the field of astronomy. Performance artist Laurie Anderson blurs the art-science divide with her one-woman show, The End of the Moon (2005) whereby she further articulates the networked system of contemporary culture in which politics, science, and the arts all share the stage.
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