Figure Concept and Method
Lury, Celia
Figure Concept and Method - Singapore Springer Nature 2022 - 1 electronic resource (283 p.)
Open Access
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. Contributors reflect on the history of figures as they have transformed disciplines and fields of study, and how methods of figuring and configuring have been integral to practices of description, computation, creation, criticism and political action. They do this by following figures across fields of social science, medicine, art, literature, media, politics, philosophy, history, anthropology, and science and technology studies. Readers will encounter figures as various as Je Suis Charlie, #MeToo, social media personae, gardeners, asthmatic children, systems configuration management and cloud computing - all demonstrate the methodological utility and contemporary relevance of thinking with figures. This book serves as a critical guide to a world of figures and a creative invitation to "go figure!"
Creative Commons
English
978-981-19-2476-7 9789811924767
10.1007/978-981-19-2476-7 doi
Anthropology
Cultural studies
Media studies
Society & social sciences
Sociology
art criticism breast cancer medicine cultural theory and history data data selves design digital media and culture figuration interdisciplinary methodologies STS surveillance urban studies
Figure Concept and Method - Singapore Springer Nature 2022 - 1 electronic resource (283 p.)
Open Access
This open access book shows how figures, figuring, and configuration are used to understand complex, contemporary problems. Figures are images, numbers, diagrams, data and datasets, turns-of-phrase, and representations. Contributors reflect on the history of figures as they have transformed disciplines and fields of study, and how methods of figuring and configuring have been integral to practices of description, computation, creation, criticism and political action. They do this by following figures across fields of social science, medicine, art, literature, media, politics, philosophy, history, anthropology, and science and technology studies. Readers will encounter figures as various as Je Suis Charlie, #MeToo, social media personae, gardeners, asthmatic children, systems configuration management and cloud computing - all demonstrate the methodological utility and contemporary relevance of thinking with figures. This book serves as a critical guide to a world of figures and a creative invitation to "go figure!"
Creative Commons
English
978-981-19-2476-7 9789811924767
10.1007/978-981-19-2476-7 doi
Anthropology
Cultural studies
Media studies
Society & social sciences
Sociology
art criticism breast cancer medicine cultural theory and history data data selves design digital media and culture figuration interdisciplinary methodologies STS surveillance urban studies