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The Culture of Diagram (Hardcover)
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The Culture of Diagram (Hardcover)
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"The Culture of Diagram" is about visual thinking. Exploring a
terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, the
book foregrounds diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to
focus on the production of knowledge as process. It outlines a
history of convergence among diverse streams of data in real-time:
from eighteenth-century print media and the diagrammatic procedures
in the pages of Diderot's "Encyclopedia" to the paintings of
Jacques-Louis David and mathematical devices that reveal the unseen
worlds of quantum physics. Central to the story is the process of
correlation, which invites observers to participate by eliciting
leaps of imagination to fill gaps in data, equations, or
sensations. This book traces practices that ran against the grain
of both Locke's clear and distinct ideas and Newton's
causality--practices greatly expanded by the calculus,
probabilities, and protocols of data sampling.
Today's digital technologies are rooted in the ability of
high-speed computers to correct errors when returning binary data
to the human sensorium. High-tech diagrams echo the visual
structures of the "Encyclopedia," arraying packets of dissimilar
data across digital spaces instead of white paper. The culture of
diagram broke with the certainties of eighteenth-century science to
expand the range of human experience. Speaking across disciplines
and discourses, Bender and Marrinan situate our modernity in a new
and revealing light.
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