How to do things with worlds?
How to address the history of knowledge of nature from a materialist viewpoint, addressing how ideas, histories and complex narratives shape the materials they describe and are shaped by them? Who measures these material spaces, according to what metres, to what images of what is to be measured?
John Tresch
John Tresch is Mellon Chair and Professor of History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London. John Tresch’s research examines changing methods, instruments, and institutions in the sciences, arts, and media from the early modern period to the present, as well as connections among disciplines, practices, and cosmology. He has published two books on 19th century sciences and their connections to technology, arts, literature, and politics. From 2005-2018 he taught History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia; he has held fellowships at the New York Public Library, the Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and has been visiting researcher at King's College London and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.