I'd like to ask both a research and a teaching question, about the most productive *and* accessible theorizations of the Model in artistic, scientific, and in-between disciplines like ours.
I'm teaching a course (this fall) in my university's interdisciplinary arts-and-science undergraduate program on the very broad theme of 'representation.' I'm comparing the relationships between scientific theories, artistic representations, and quantitative/tractable models of research objects (in any field) that make them computationally addressable.
The question is this: which essays or articles would best introduce these advanced undergraduates to the third category?
Willard McCarty's essay, "Modeling: a study in words and meanings" from *A companion to digital humanities* (2004), is cited in Matt Burton's "Joy of Topic Modeling" blog post last month < http://mcburton.net/blog/joy-of-tm/ >. This seems the natural place to start, but I wonder if readers have used other texts to induce intelligent non-specialists to join, or at least to grasp, our field.
These are my other texts:
* David Bohm, *On Creativity*
* Virginia Woolf, *The Waves* (and Stephen Ramsay's work on the same)
* Richard Dawkins, *The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing*
With thanks,
Michael Ullyot
