ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
The dematerialisation of science
Across the world, museums are ‘digitising’ their collections. Geologists and archaeologists increasingly rely on remote sensing techniques to study sites and create ‘digital twins’ for further study. Computer simulations play a key role in research from climate modelling to synthetic chemistry, preceding and sometimes replacing experiments. On the face of it, these research practices have little in common. Taken together, however, they represent a potentially alarming trend: science is becoming less and less material. In DeMatS, I take these individual cases of ‘digitising’, ‘remote sensing’, and ‘simulating’ as a starting point to scrutinise the wider transformation of science underway as…
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