La 4e de couverture indique: The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material pro…
Daston and Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid 19th century sciences and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgement. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientif…
Daston and Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid 19th century sciences and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgement. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientif…
This text explores the vast potential of network diagrams and focuses on the long tradition of visually mapping complex networks. The book represents a middle ground in the existing spectrum of books about information-graphics design.
Pour comprendre et visualiser les systèmes d'informations complexes, les designers, les chercheurs et les scientifiques utilisent des mélanges de couleurs, des symboles, des algorithmes, des graphiques et toutes les techniques de représentations qui sont à leurs dispositon. Ces …
"Our ability to generate information now far exceeds our capacity to understand it. Finding patterns and making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century. In recent years, designers, researchers, …
This collection of 13 original writings, including a newly translated piece by Virilio himself, is the first genuine appraisal of Virilio's contribution to contemporary art, photography, film, television and more. Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics o…
