Description: "An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life"--
Review Quotes:
"Lively, timely, and filled with vivid examples, The Lab Book is a highly readable and critically sophisticated account of current lab culture. Written by three distinguished practitioners, it examines the rhetoric that links real and imaginary ideas of experimentality with systems of power and authority across a surprising range of disciplines. A fun, smart, useful guide to ongoing work in media studies."--Johanna Drucker, author of Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display
"The Lab Book is a crucial intervention into humanities labs and their precarious institutional environments. Situated between science and technology studies (STS) and media archaeology, Wershler, Emerson, and Parikka's book develops a heuristic for analyzing these hybrid spaces, producing a valuable tool for understanding the assemblages of space, apparatus, infrastructure, people, and imaginaries supporting their existence."--Theory, Culture Society
"Richly illustrated and well argued, these chapters convincingly showcase the benefits of adopting the extended laboratory model to enhance the study of past and present laboratories."--Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
"The Lab Book very successfully makes a complex and compelling case for a new understanding and appreciation of labs, as well as their value in media studies and beyond."--Information Culture