Curriculum Vitae:
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Faculty
Phillip Thurtle
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- About
Phillip Thurtle is director of the Comparative History of Ideas program, associate professor in History,and adjunct in Anthropology at the University of Washington. He received his PhD in history and the philosophy of science from Stanford University. He is the author of The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biology 1870-1920 (University of Washington Press, 2008), the co-author with Robert Mitchell (English, Duke University) and Helen Burgess (English, University of Maryland) of the interactive DVD-ROM BioFutures: Owning Information an Body Parts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), and the co-editor with Robert Mitchell of the volumes Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003) and Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body (University of Washington Press, 2002). His research focuses on the material culture of information processing, the affective-phenomenological domains of media, the role of information processing technologies in biomedical research, and theories of novelty in the life sciences. His most recent work is on the cellular spaces of transformation in evolutionary and developmental biology research and the cultural spaces of transformation in superhero comics.
Fall 2010-CHID 222: Biofutures
Winter 2011-CHID 444: Eye+Mind
Spring 2011-CHID 390: Unreason: Madness and the Politics of Knowledge
Go to my blog (link below) if you want to check out recent publications/classes.
- Status
- Faculty
- Personal Website
- http://faculty.washington.edu/thurtle/
- Sentence about you and your interests
- science studies, post humanism, cultural studies of biology, history of science and technology, material culture, metaphysics
- Links
Links to 2010 classes:
CHID 222: Biofutures, Autumn 2010
https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/thurtle/15341/CHID 444: Eye + Mind, Winter 2011
https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/thurtle/18482/CHID 390: Unreason: Madness and the Politics of Knowledge
https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/thurtle/19970/119564
Interests & CV
History
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