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Figure Concept and Method

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 figuresand a creative invitation to "go figure!"

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Book information

ISBN: 9789811924781
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.2223
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 286
Weight: 400g
Height: 209mm
Width: 147mm
Spine width: 26mm