TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lury,Celia
AU  - Lury,Celia
AU  - Viney,William
AU  - Viney,William
AU  - Wark,Scott
AU  - Wark,Scott
TI  - Figure: Concept and Method
SN  - 978-981-19-2476-7
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Media studies
KW  - Society & social sciences
KW  - Sociology
KW  - art criticism
KW  - breast cancer medicine
KW  - cultural theory and history
KW  - data
KW  - data selves
KW  - design
KW  - digital media and culture
KW  - figuration
KW  - interdisciplinary methodologies
KW  - STS
KW  - surveillance
KW  - urban studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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!"
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c0b75e86-c643-4c10-acc5-88b1cf6e789b/978-981-19-2476-7.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59380
ER  -