Ontologies and Natures

Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez is a Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven. He is also a visiting scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge and Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute (Leibniz Association).

• Part I: Images of NatureChapter 1. Visual HealingChapter 2. Animated EpistemologiesPart II: Shapes of NatureChapter 3. Barcoded PharmacopeiasChapter 4. Gendered Epistemic ArtefactsPart III: Sites of NatureChapter 5. Topological PanaceasChapter 6. Sensorial Interfaces

Conceptions and practices of health enact cultural understandings of nature as much as they reflect the state of our knowledges of the natural world and our place within it. By showing how these knowledges are asserted, materialized, and performed through visual representations, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez brings forth the social and cultural encounters, tensions, hierarchies, and exclusions that underscore universalist discourses of health, suggesting that epistemic inclusivity may better be approached by embracing nature as an essentially unstable object of human knowledge.