David R. Gruber (Urban Affairs) published a paper titled, "Material foundations of scientific metaphors: A New Materialist metaphor studies." The paper uses a case study from the neurosciences to argue that scholarly discussions of scientific metaphors in the humanities and social sciences must give greater attention to the specific technologies, practices, bodies, and affects in the lab. Appeals to the overwhelming force of the social field or to the strategic maneuvering of the scientists are insufficient when aiming to account for why a particularly alluring or otherwise charged metaphor was employed to articulate a scientific finding.