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<title lang=en> “The Narrative Challenges of Microbiology: scale, actants and imagery in two scientific fables”</title>
<creator>Campos, Liliane</creator>
<creator>Bapteste, Eric</creator>
<contributor>PRISMES - Langues, Textes, Arts et Cultures du Monde Anglophone - EA 4398 (PRISMES) ; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3</contributor>
<contributor>Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine</contributor>
<contributor>Evolution Paris Seine ; Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG) - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC) - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS) ; Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) - Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)</contributor>
<description>International audience</description>
<source>“Narrative, Cognition & Science” Symposium</source>
<coverage>Erlangen, Germany</coverage>
<contributor>Erlangen-Nürnberg University</contributor>
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<identifier>https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01434744</identifier>
<source>https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01434744</source>
<source>“Narrative, Cognition & Science” Symposium, Oct 2016, Erlangen, Germany. 2016, 〈http://elinas.fau.de/workshops/cognition.html〉</source>
<source>http://elinas.fau.de/workshops/cognition.html</source>
<language>en</language>
<subject lang=en>narrative</subject>
<subject lang=en>biology</subject>
<subject lang=en>popular science</subject>
<subject lang=en>microbiology</subject>
<subject lang=en>virus</subject>
<subject lang=en>actant</subject>
<subject lang=en>scale</subject>
<subject lang=en>images</subject>
<subject lang=en>metaphor</subject>
<subject lang=en>Graphic novels</subject>
<subject lang=en>Fiction</subject>
<subject>[SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history</subject>
<subject>[SHS.HISPHILSO] Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences</subject>
<subject>[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature</subject>
<subject>[SHS.MUSIQ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Musicology and performing arts</subject>
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<description lang=en>This paper investigates the narrative challenges and opportunities that contemporary virology offers to popular science and to fiction. The study of viruses reveals extremely complex relations, playing out over different physical and temporal scales. Viruses constitute a heterogeneous population whose interactions with living organisms occur on multiple levels, and whose numbers are vastly superior to human and even bacterial populations on earth. The resulting challenges for narration can be grouped into three main formal questions. The first is the problem of scale, since the numbers and sizes of virus and host populations are vastly different, as are the temporalities over which they transform and survive. The second is the complexity of actants, since viruses are involved in relations where destruction and mutual benefit can overlap, and genetic transformations are played out over many generations. The third is the choice of images through which to convey their behaviours: many existing metaphors in microbiology, such as “chimeras”, “parasites” or “kill-the-winner dynamics”, carry the narrative potential of a mythological and/or theatrical imagination.These questions will first be examined as challenges encountered in the narration of biology for vulgarization purposes, and effects on narrative forms will be outlined: shifts in focalization in order to create multiscalar perspectives; unstable actantial models as expressions of complex relations; and the use or resistance to narrative structures implied by several key metaphors in virological discourse. These formal characteristics will then be presented through two case studies drawn from contemporary fiction. In his “scientific fable” Conflits Intérieurs (2015), microbiologist Eric Bapteste creates a multiscalar narrative by using humans and viruses as both protagonists and narrators in a battle of ideas. In the graphic novel aâma (2011-2014), Frederik Peeters explores the ambiguous potential, both symbiotic and threatening, of a meta-organism uniting humans with microscopic agents. Both these novels play with scale, metaphor and actants so as to question the fundaments of human identity. They posit the act of narration as a defining human attribute, and consequently use the narrative voice as an arena in which we observe the weakening of the notion of the subject by microbiology.</description>
<contributor>collaboration avec Eric Bapteste (CNRS)</contributor>
<date>2016-10-21</date>
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