Contributors
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Tom Conley is Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. He has published widely on topics such as space and maps, French critical theory, film, and nationhood. Among his recent books are Cartographic Cinema (2007) and the translation of Christian Jacob's The Sovereign Map (2006). Forthcoming books include Errant Eye: Topography and Poetry in Renaissance France, a translation of Marc Augé's Casablanca: Movies and Memory, and a new edition of his 1997 The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France.
Lori Emerson is assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an associate editor of Electronic Book Review. She is currently working on a book project titled "The Rematerialization of Poetry," which offers a model for reading twentieth- and twenty-first-century "book-bound" and digital poetry by way of theories of mathematics, science, and digital media. Emerson is also co-editor of The Alphabet Game (2007), an anthology of experimental writing by the Canadian digital-poetry pioneer bpNichol, and curator of The Archeological Media Lab, an archival lab for cross-disciplinary experimental research and teaching using outdated tools, software, and platforms (from Pong and the Apple IIe to the Commodore 64).
Robert Goulding is assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Program in History and Philosophy [End Page 193] of Science at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in history from the Warburg Institute, University of London. His forthcoming book is on histories of mathematics in the sixteenth century. He is the coauthor of a translation of Thomas Harriot's Artis analyticae praxis, as well as the author of many articles on early modern mathematics, optics, and magic.
Linda Dalrymple Henderson is the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (1983; new, enlarged edition, 2010) and Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works (1998). With Bruce Clarke, she co-edited the anthology From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature (2002). She also guest-edited the winter 2004 issue of Science in Context on modern art and science, which includes her two-part introduction: "I. Writing Modern Art and Science—An Overview"; and "II. Cubism, Futurism, and Ether Physics in the Early Twentieth Century." Most recently, Henderson curated the fall 2008 exhibition Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York for the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas.
Reviel Netz is professor of classics at Stanford University. He is the author of many books and articles on the poetics of ancient scientific texts seen through a cognitive or an aesthetic prism, such as The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (1999) and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009).
Arkady Plotnitsky is professor of English, a director of the Theory and Cultural Studies Program, and a co-director of the Philosophy and Literature Program at Purdue University. He has published widely on British and European Romanticism, Modernism, continental philosophy, philosophy of physics and mathematics, and the relationships among literature, philosophy, mathematics, and science. His most recent books are Reading Bohr: Physics and Philosophy (2006) and The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures" (2002). He also co-edited (with Tilottama Rajan) a collection of essays, Idealism without Absolute: Philosophy and Romantic Culture (2004). His study Epistemology and Probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking was published in 2009 by Springer in the series Fundamental Theories in Physics. He is currently at work on his book Thought and Spatiality: Non-Euclideanism from Riemann to Deleuze. [End Page 194]
Arielle Saiber is associate professor of Italian at Bowdoin College. She has published on Dante, Renaissance mathematics, Renaissance advice manuals, and on genre theory and experimental electronic music. Her book Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language was published in 2005, and she co-edited, with Stefano...
