About this book
The practice and theory of science communication can take many forms. One of them, which this volume represents, explores what forms of knowledge might be constructed when creative writing encounters science. Working outwards from a theoretical framework that sees the sciences as discourses constructed by human endeavour through forms of language and practices of authority, this collection offers writing that emerged from a scientific encounter. It explores the relationship between creativity and scientific experiment, between the languages deployed by scientists in their experiments and analyses and the languages forged by creatives in their ongoing efforts to understand the human condition.
Fic Sci 01 brought eleven creative writers together with a biomechanical engineer. The presented science invited creative enquiry into different aspects of flow, that physical property that is so central to research in fluid mechanics. This anthology collects the results of that encounter.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Notes from an Invited Scientist
- 2. Sizakele to the Blood Ocean
- 3. Igazi Liyathetha
- 4. Abazindla: The Prologue
- 5. Umcimbi Wegazi
- 6. The Form of the Fibre is Shaped by the Follicle
- 7. Fix the Hair, Fix the Child
- 8. BLOOD/BRAIN/BARRIER: A Mindplay
- 9. Coagulation: A Tribute
- 10. It Comes from Nowhere
- 11. Poems
- 12. Fractals
- 13. Always in Motion
- 14. Artefacts
- 15. Unrooted
- 16. Notes on Boundary and Flow
- 17. RatHeart-LoveSong
- 18. lab rat
- 19. An Interplay with Flow
- Biographies
- Back cover
