@article{kim_2019, title={Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Development}, volume={60}, ISSN={["1097-3729"]}, DOI={10.1353/tech.2019.0019}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Developmentby Derek P. McCormack Mi Gyung Kim (bio) Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Development. By Derek P. McCormack. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 304. Paperback $26.95. In the author's design, this book is about the processual relation between "atmospheres and envelopment mapped by a deceptively simple thing—the balloon." Atmospheresmean "elemental spacetimes that are simultaneously affective and methodological," while envelopmentrefers to the condition of being immersed, which allows for "a shaping of things in relation to an atmospheric milieu." The balloon is less an object of scholarly inquiry than a "speculative" probe that charts the "material continuity between entities and the elemental conditions" (pp. 4–5). It is construed as a "particularly useful and alluring" device for "doing" atmospheric things—"objects, processes, or events that in some ways disclose, generate, or intensify the condition of being enveloped" while in other ways remain "beyond cognition or tangibility," evanescent and vague (p. 10). The adjective "elemental" is used throughout the book to indicate the material and affective forces being woven into atmospheric things. This self-consciously experimental endeavor to configure the "affective materiality of the elemental spacetimes" (p. 7) can be seen as an exercise in cultural epistemology/ontology which, if successful, would fundamentally undermine the existing mode of doing material history as a biography of the object—one that depends on the steely analytic gaze to stabilize the object of inquiry and to discern a set of causes for its genesis, development, and metamorphosis. "Thinking with the balloon" (p. 12) as an epistemological device and asking "how atmospheres are sensed" (p. 8) allow the author to claim a "semi-random" (p. 13) access to the elemental (admittedly Western) spacetime configurations and to scramble philosophical, social, or historical epistemology/ontology. The "allure of elemental development" (title) promises an epistemological experiment by lending agency or "sensing" capacity to non-human subjects without binding them to the metaphysically prescribed role as subjects or objects—non-relational entities withdrawn from us. Their inevitably "partial" (p. 4) sensing configures dynamic things that transgress the existing ontological and space-time frameworks. Nine chapters in the body—each titled envelopment, sensing, allure, release, volume, sounding, tensions, hail, and elements—invite readers to think with various cultural theorists on a range of atmospheric things, be it a literary construct, a political event, a cultural phenomenon, etc. How we grasp the "sensory capacities" (p. 35) of various devices and bodies is a central, yet difficult issue that remains speculative. If the balloon enhances our affective engagement by placing our vision within aerostatic sensing, exactly how the balloon expands, ascends, and senses depends ultimately [End Page 332]on our interpretive strategies in dealing with the contemporary and literary examples that shape our real or imagined environments. Our sensory and affective capacities become an inseparable part of their envelopment to constitute an atmospheric thing. In other words, the author's atmospheric things in their framework-engendering capacity differ from Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's "epistemic things" which, despite their "characteristic, irreducible vagueness," are defined as "material entities or processes … that constitute the objects of inquiry" ( Toward a History of Epistemic Things, p. 28). Subject to scientists' steady analytic gaze, they generate research questions within the given framework. More than a speculative experiment, the deliberate epistemic experience emerging in the contemporary cultural environment is meant to encourage atmospheric politics—not a naïve advocacy of solidarity but an experiment in "producing infrastructures for generating values" (p. 9). Although these values remain as ambiguous as the atmospheric things in flux, the call for a scholarship that is politically engaged at the point of knowledge production (rather than insisting on the neutrality of knowledge production whatever its political use) makes the book a compelling critique of the postmodern scholarship that is often hyper-analytic without critical purpose. Except for the insistence on things as processual units (rather than analyzable assemblages), the author's project shares a concern with Bruno Latour's Dingpolitik—"a risky and tentative set of experiments in probing just what it could mean for political thought"—to take things seriously ( Making Things Public, p...}, number={1}, journal={TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2019}, month={Jan}, pages={332–333} }
 @article{kim_2015, title={Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order.}, volume={106}, ISSN={["1545-6994"]}, DOI={10.1086/682774}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsVictor D. Boantza. Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution: Laws of Another Order. (Science, Technology, and Culture, 1700–1945.) xiv + 266 pp., illus., bibl., index. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. $124.95 (cloth).Mi Gyung KimMi Gyung Kim Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 106, Number 2June 2015 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/682774 Views: 36Total views on this site © 2015 by The History of Science Society. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={ISIS}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2015}, month={Jun}, pages={439–440} }
 @article{kim_2014, title={Archeology, genealogy, and geography of experimental philosophy}, volume={44}, ISSN={["1460-3659"]}, DOI={10.1177/0306312713507329}, abstractNote={It would be uncontroversial to say that Leviathan and the Air-Pump by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer opened a new era in the history of science and technology despite its slow, filtered assimilation into the historiography.1 By configuring the ‘experimental space’ of Restoration England, the authors created a new epistemological space for the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, which helped destabilize the intellectual/ institutional marriage between the history and the philosophy of science (Laudan, 1992), reform the sociology of knowledge in tune with the Strong Programme (Barnes, 1974; Barnes et al., 1996; Bloor, 1976), bridge the sharp division between the history of science and the history of technology, and provide impetus for a comparative anthropology of science (Latour, 1990, 1993). It also helped legitimize localism and microsociological inquiry, make instrumental biography fashionable, and challenge the accepted narrative of the Scientific Revolution. Owen Hannaway (1988) thus characterized the book as ‘a rich and rewarding fruit of the Kuhnian revolution’ that had liberated history of science from philosophy of science by showing ‘science as a communal experimental activity’. The book’s impact across disciplines was recognized by the Erasmus prize in 2005, two decades after its publication. As can be expected of a visionary work, some completely missed its significance, as when Marie Boas Hall (1986) characterized the Hobbes–Boyle exchange as an argument between a philosopher and a scientist – rather than hybrid philosopher–scientists – who could only misunderstand each other, as always. The book’s relationship to the history of}, number={1}, journal={SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2014}, month={Feb}, pages={150–162} }
 @misc{kim_2014, title={Material enlightenments}, volume={44}, number={4}, journal={Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2014}, pages={424–433} }
 @misc{kim_2014, title={Paris scientist: Career and meetings during the Enlightenment}, volume={44}, number={4}, journal={Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2014}, pages={424–433} }
 @article{kim_2014, title={Stabilizing chemical reality: The analytic-synthetic ideal of chemical species}, volume={20}, number={1}, journal={Hyle}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2014}, pages={117–139} }
 @misc{kim_2014, title={The expert cook in enlightenment France}, volume={44}, number={4}, journal={Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2014}, pages={424–433} }
 @article{kim_2013, title={Invention as a Social Drama From an Ascending Machine to the Aerostatic Globe}, volume={54}, ISSN={["1097-3729"]}, DOI={10.1353/tech.2013.0129}, abstractNote={This paper characterizes the invention of the aerostatic machine in 1783 as a social drama to probe its social, cultural, and political function in Old Regime France. Even if the machine did not usher in modern industrialization and does not deserve a prominent place in economic history, the process of its “invention” highlights a rather usual set of factors involved in changing a traditional society organized by symbolic hierarchy. By delineating its provincial sites of production, its machine genealogy, the performative conjuncture of various sciences that facilitated its birth, and its metamorphosis in the Parisian public sphere, this paper makes visible the inventors’ liminality in theatrical polity and their strategies of self-fashioning that stabilized a fragile paper machine as a majestic scientific spectacle that helped visualize the emergent nation.}, number={4}, journal={TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2013}, month={Oct}, pages={853–887} }
 @article{kim_2011, title={From phlogiston to caloric: chemical ontologies}, volume={13}, ISSN={1386-4238 1572-8463}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/S10698-011-9116-Y}, DOI={10.1007/S10698-011-9116-Y}, number={3}, journal={Foundations of Chemistry}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2011}, month={Oct}, pages={201–222} }
 @article{kim_2011, title={The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia}, volume={83}, ISSN={["0022-2801"]}, DOI={10.1086/662311}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia. By Joanna Stalnaker. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. xvi+240. $45.00.Mi Gyung KimMi Gyung KimNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author North Carolina State UniversityPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 83, Number 4December 2011 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/662311 Views: 24Total views on this site © 2011 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2011}, month={Dec}, pages={901–903} }
 @article{kim_2009, title={A Historical Atlas of Objectivity}, volume={6}, ISSN={1479-2443 1479-2451}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990187}, DOI={10.1017/S1479244309990187}, abstractNote={The mythical scientist in early twentieth-century America cut a lone figure, “impersonal as the chill northeast wind” and “oblivious of everything save his experiment.” He toiled through the night in his laboratory, “a place unimpressive and unmagical save for the constant-temperature bath with its tricky thermometer and electric bulbs,” as if working in the lab were a prayer that promised illumination—“alone, absorbed, [and] contemptuous of academic success and of popular classes,” he knew all about material forces, but he was blind to the vital force that created all others. Accustomed to the “beautiful dullness of long labors,” he remained “illimitably ignorant” of literature, art, and music. He believed that unerring techniques in experimentation, impartial observations, and exquisitely minute calculations would bring progress—a steady march toward the truth. He chose the highest calling in the world because he was “intensely religious—so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.” He was “so devoted to Pure Science . . . that he would rather have people die by the right therapy than be cured by the wrong. Having built a shrine for humanity, he wanted to kick out of it all mere human beings.” This autocratic figure, brilliantly insane and tyrannically honest, embodied the cult of science and objectivity.}, number={3}, journal={Modern Intellectual History}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2009}, month={Nov}, pages={569–596} }
 @misc{kim_2009, title={Neighbours and territories: The evolving identity of chemistry}, volume={24}, DOI={10.1163/182539109x01029}, abstractNote={With reference to the publication of the Offer Memorandum today, Brill and De Gruyter jointly announce that de Gruyter is making a recommended public offer to all Securityholders for all Securities at an Offer Price of EUR 27.50 per Security (cum dividend).}, number={2}, journal={Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2009}, pages={553–554} }
 @misc{kim_2008, title={The uses of curiosity in early modern France and Germany}, volume={38}, DOI={10.1177/02656914080380030617}, abstractNote={enforce these laws before the Thirty Years’ War. Meanwhile, Lance Lazar does not uncover any expansion of state power in the construction of Catholic identity through cheap devotional tracts produced by the Jesuits. Marc Forster’s article acknowledges a pattern of collaboration between the Catholic Church and states to reform the clergy and to introduce standard religious practices. However, he suggests that after 1650 the involvement of the state in church life became increasingly routine and bureaucratic. In Bavaria, princes and state officials came to see Catholicism and the Marian cult as a tool for strengthening loyalty to the state. Meanwhile, the force of popular Catholic confessional identity remained strong, and by 1700 Forster finds that confessionalization was emerging ‘from below’. Other contributions to this volume view confessionalization as a general context for their analysis of religion and society. Susan Karant-Nunn discusses the role of displays of emotion in Protestant churches, arguing that ‘Calvinists went even farther than Lutherans in reducing emotion-arousing messages’ (116). Robin Barnes discusses the distinctive attitude adopted by Lutherans towards astrology. While Calvinists attacked astrological predictions in popular almanacs as challenges to divine sovereignty, among Lutherans knowledge of the movements of the stars was seen merely to reveal the divine order. Bruce Gordon discusses John Dury’s mission of the 1650s to encourage the Swiss Reformed churches to adopt his irenic project and overcome confessional divisions with Lutherans. Finally, Constantin Fasolt’s article points to the decline of confessionalism during the mid-seventeenth century through the writings of Hermann Conring, who suggested that religious diversity need not disrupt peace and order within a state. It remains to be demonstrated whether or not confessionalization as a coherent model can in fact be applied to Europe as a whole. Is there value in historians only discovering endless variations on the original theme of confessionalization? While the law of diminishing returns remains a danger, this volume demonstrates that historians certainly do benefit from thinking clearly about the parallel experiences of different religious communities, patterns of religious polarisation and co-habitation, and the role of states, churches, and ordinary people in the construction of confessional identities in early modern Europe.}, number={3}, journal={European History Quarterly}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2008}, pages={485–487} }
 @article{kim_2007, title={Speculative truth: Henry Cavendish, natural philosophy, and the rise of modern theoretical science.}, volume={98}, ISSN={["0021-1753"]}, DOI={10.1086/521456}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewRussell McCormmach. Speculative Truth: Henry Cavendish, Natural Philosophy, and the Rise of Modern Theoretical Science. viii + 258 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. $44.50 (cloth).Mi Gyung KimMi Gyung Kim Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 98, Number 2June 2007 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/521456 Views: 14Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={ISIS}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2007}, month={Jun}, pages={386–387} }
 @misc{kim_2006, title={'Public' science: Hydrogen balloons and Lavoisier's decomposition of water}, volume={63}, ISSN={["1464-505X"]}, DOI={10.1080/00033790600610494}, abstractNote={Summary The balloon mania between 1783 and 1785 put an extraordinary strain on the Paris Academy of Sciences, threatening its status as the highest tribunal of European science. Faced with repeated royal directives and public frenzy, the Academy manoeuvred carefully to steer the research toward the hydrogen balloon and thereby to maintain its scientific superiority. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier seized this moment when the promise of ‘the empire of airs’ brought science to the centre of public attention to push his theoretical reform for chemistry. He utilized the established protocol of the Academy and the resources of the Republic of Letters to broadly publicize his first decomposition of water in April 1784. Once he attained the publicity and the balloon fever began to cool, he staged a much more elaborate experiment for the experts in February 1785. Although this second, large-scale experiment cost much expense and effort, Lavoisier never published a full account. The differential care given to the two experiments can only be understood in their divergent rhetorical contexts. The written accounts in 1784 addressed the court of public opinion, while the exclusive performance in 1785 aimed at the court of experts to inaugurate the collaborative phase of the Chemical Revolution.}, number={3}, journal={ANNALS OF SCIENCE}, author={Kim, Mi Gyung}, year={2006}, month={Jul}, pages={291–318} }
 @article{kim_2006, title={Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932)}, volume={12}, number={1}, journal={Hyle}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2006}, pages={141–148} }
 @misc{kim_2004, title={Balloon mania: news in the air}, volume={28}, ISSN={["0160-9327"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.endeavour.2004.04.010}, abstractNote={The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, enabled the French King to project his glory, the nobility to exhibit their valor, the literary public to transmit the ideal of the Enlightenment and the plebian public to rejoice in a scientific spectacle. The ensuing balloon mania helped create an integrated public that, because of its size and composition, can only be described as 'democratic' just a few years before the French Revolution. The monumental impact of the balloon was well represented in a flood of poetry, pamphlets, books, journal reports, academic papers and consumer items. Sifting through these artifacts and considering the crowd that witnessed the ascent of the balloon will bring us to the historical moment when things, spectacles, and events (rather than words) shaped public and popular opinion.}, number={4}, journal={ENDEAVOUR}, author={Kim, MG}, year={2004}, month={Dec}, pages={149–155} }
 @book{kim_2003, title={Affinity, that elusive dream: A genealogy of the chemical revolution}, ISBN={0262112736}, DOI={10.7551/mitpress/1141.001.0001}, abstractNote={In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to its proper place in historiography and in Enlightenment public culture. The Chemical Revolution is usually associated with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who introduced a modern nomenclature and a definitive text. Kim argues that chemical affinity was erased from historical memory by Lavoisier's omission of it from his textbook. She examines the work of many less famous French chemists (including physicians, apothecaries, metallurgists, philosophical chemists, and industrial chemists) to explore the institutional context of chemical instruction and research, the social stratification that shaped theoretical discourse, and the crucial shifts in analytic methods. Apothecaries and metallurgists, she shows, shaped the main theory domains through their innovative approach to analysis. Academicians and philosophical chemists brought about two transformative theoretical moments through their efforts to create a rational discourse of chemistry in tune with the reigning natural philosophy. The topics discussed include the corpuscular (Cartesian) model in French chemistry in the early 1700s, the stabilization of the theory domains of composition and affinity, the reconstruction of French theoretical discourse in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Newtonian languages that plagued the domain of affinity just before the Chemical Revolution, Guyton de Morveau's program of affinity chemistry, Lavoisier's reconstruction of the theory domains of chemistry, and Berthollet's path as an affinity chemist.}, publisher={Cambridge, MA: MIT Press}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2003} }
 @article{kim_2001, title={Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch: Correspondence with Wihelm Ostwald}, volume={92}, ISSN={["0021-1753"]}, DOI={10.1086/385237}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsArthur Rudolf Hantzsch: Im Briefwechsel mit Wihelm Ostwald. Joachim Stocklöv Mi Gyung KimMi Gyung Kim Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 92, Number 2Jun., 2001 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/385237 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 2001 The History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={2}, journal={ISIS}, author={Kim, MG}, year={2001}, month={Jun}, pages={404–405} }
 @article{kim_2001, title={The analytic ideal of chemical elements: Robert Boyle and the French didactic tradition of chemistry}, volume={14}, DOI={10.1017/0269889701000368}, number={3}, journal={Science in Context}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2001}, pages={361–395} }
 @article{kim_2000, title={Chemical analysis and the domains of reality: Wilhelm Homberg's Essais de chimie, 1702-1709}, volume={31A}, DOI={10.1016/s0039-3681(99)00033-3}, number={1}, journal={Studies in History and Philosophy of Science}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2000}, pages={37–69} }
 @misc{kim_2000, title={The making of the chemist: The social history of chemistry in Europe, 1789-1914.}, volume={57}, number={3}, journal={Annals of Science}, author={Kim, M. G.}, year={2000}, pages={311–312} }
 @article{kim_1999, title={August Friedrich Horstmann and physical chemistry}, volume={90}, ISSN={["0021-1753"]}, DOI={10.1086/384557}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsAugust Friedrich Horstmann und die physikalische Chemie. Alexander Kipnis Mi Gyung KimMi Gyung Kim Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 90, Number 4Dec., 1999 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/384557 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1999 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={4}, journal={ISIS}, author={Kim, MG}, year={1999}, month={Dec}, pages={821–822} }
 @article{kim_1997, title={Arrhenius: From ionic theory to the greenhouse effect.}, volume={88}, ISSN={["0021-1753"]}, DOI={10.1086/383892}, abstractNote={Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsArrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect. Elisabeth Crawford Mi Gyung KimMi Gyung Kim Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 88, Number 4Dec., 1997 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/383892 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 1998 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.}, number={4}, journal={ISIS}, author={Kim, MG}, year={1997}, month={Dec}, pages={728–729} }