Working With Diagrams
Published on 8. July 2022
Book
Hardback
164 pages
978-1-80073-558-3 (ISBN)
Description
Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories. Across a range of disciplines, the chapters introduce the ephemeral dimensions of scientist's interactions and collaboration with diagrams, consider how diagrams configure cooperation across disciplines, and explore how diagrams have been made to work in ways that point beyond simplification, clarification and formalization.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 44 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80073-558-3 (9781800735583)
DOI
10.3167/9781800735583
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Lukas Engelmann | Caroline Humphrey | Christos Lynteris
Working With Diagrams
E-Book
07/2022
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€22.49
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Lukas Engelmann | Caroline Humphrey | Christos Lynteris
Working With Diagrams
E-Book
07/2022
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€22.49
Available for download
Persons
Lukas Engelmann is a Chancellor's Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the History and Sociology of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His research is concerned with the history of epidemiological reasoning in the twentieth century, for which he received an ERC Starting Grant in 2020.
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Diagrams beyond Mere Tools
Lukas Englemann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris
Chapter 1. Revisiting Sigmund Freud's Diagrams of the Mind
Ro Spankie
Chapter 2. Dis/working with Diagrams: How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case)
Nurit Bird-David
Chapter 3. On Visual Coherence and Visual Excess: Writing, Diagrams, and Anthropological Form
Matei Candea
Chapter 4. Configurations of Plague: Spatial Diagrams in Early Epidemiology
Lukas Engelmann
Chapter 5. A Nomadic Diagram: Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape and Anthropology
Caroline Humphrey
Afterword: Abstraction and Schematization in the Repeated Copying of Designs
Philip Steadman
Conclusion: The Work of Diagrams
Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris
Index
Introduction: Diagrams beyond Mere Tools
Lukas Englemann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris
Chapter 1. Revisiting Sigmund Freud's Diagrams of the Mind
Ro Spankie
Chapter 2. Dis/working with Diagrams: How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case)
Nurit Bird-David
Chapter 3. On Visual Coherence and Visual Excess: Writing, Diagrams, and Anthropological Form
Matei Candea
Chapter 4. Configurations of Plague: Spatial Diagrams in Early Epidemiology
Lukas Engelmann
Chapter 5. A Nomadic Diagram: Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape and Anthropology
Caroline Humphrey
Afterword: Abstraction and Schematization in the Repeated Copying of Designs
Philip Steadman
Conclusion: The Work of Diagrams
Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey, and Christos Lynteris
Index