In contrast to an orthodox scientific realism that sorts the “pure” concept of mathematical argument from the “illustrative” image of prose exposition, the book defines a scientific imaginary as a complex of images that: one, grounds scientific concepts in the ordinary cognitive linguistic processes that organize embodied human experience two, mediates between human agency and the agency of the objects a theory posits as real phenomena and three, situates the theory within a broader cultural context. The book’s main claim is that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable to it as a scientific discourse. Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary is the first sustained study of string theory as a cultural phenomenon, synthesizing developments in continental philosophy of science, contemporary cognitive linguistics, and literary criticism to examine the role the imagination plays in the production and dissemination of string theory as scientific knowledge.
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