Working With Diagrams / / ed. by Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey, Christos Lynteris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Bird-David, Nurit,; Candea, Matei,; Engelmann, Lukas,; Humphrey, Caroline,; Lynteris, Christos,; Spankie, Ro,
• HerausgeberIn: Steadman, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Social Analysis ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (164 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction Diagrams beyond Mere Tools -- Chapter 1 Revisiting Sigmund Freud’s Diagrams of the Mind -- Chapter 2 Dis/working with Diagrams How Genealogies and Maps Obscure Nanoscale Worlds (a Hunter-Gatherer Case) -- Chapter 3 On Visual Coherence and Visual Excess Writing, Diagrams, and Anthropological Form -- Chapter 4 Configurations of Plague Spatial Diagrams in Early Epidemiology -- Chapter 5 A Nomadic Diagram Waddington’s Epigenetic Landscape and Anthropology -- Epilogue Abstraction and Schematization in the Repeated Copying of Designs -- Afterword The Work of Diagrams -- Index