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dc.contributor.editorLury, Celia
dc.contributor.editorViney, William
dc.contributor.editorWark, Scott
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-18T14:20:55Z
dc.date.available2022-11-18T14:20:55Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20221118_9789811924767_48
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59380
dc.description.abstractThis 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!”
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.othercultural theory and history
dc.subject.otherSTS
dc.subject.otherfiguration
dc.subject.otherdata
dc.subject.otherbreast cancer medicine
dc.subject.otherdigital media and culture
dc.subject.otherart criticism
dc.subject.otherdesign
dc.subject.otherdata selves
dc.subject.othersurveillance
dc.subject.otherurban studies
dc.subject.otherinterdisciplinary methodologies
dc.titleFigure
dc.title.alternativeConcept and Method
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-981-19-2476-7
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedByd859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd
oapen.relation.isbn9789811924767
oapen.collectionWellcome
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages283
oapen.place.publicationSingapore
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