Working With Diagrams -

Working With Diagrams

Buch | Softcover
164 Seiten
2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-560-6 (ISBN)
37,80 inkl. MwSt
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. Contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.
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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Social Analysis
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-80073-560-X / 180073560X
ISBN-13 978-1-80073-560-6 / 9781800735606
Zustand Neuware
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