Figures
0.1Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, c. 1487. Wikimedia commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci-_Vitruvian_Man.JPG
1.1The Pnyx. Showing the ‘stepping stone’ or bema. Photograph by Costas Tzagarakis, 2021.
2.1Pietro Testa, Drunken Alcibiades interrupting the Symposium, gravure, 1648. Wikimedia commons
2.2Pieter de Hooch, Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House, 1670. Oil. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Public domain. SK-C-147
3.1Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musk. Leipzig: E. W. Fritzsch, 1872. Photo © H.-P. Haack. Wikipedia
3.2Diagram of the Umwelt. Based on schematic view of a cycle as an early bio-cyberneticist. Authors’ own.
3.3Experimental composer John Cage changes the tuning of his piano by placing coins and screws between the strings in the Gaveau Auditorium, Paris, France, 25 June 1949. New York Times Co./Getty Images.
4.2Wing’s Almanack, 1752. The handwritten notes record specific cows being bull’d at certain times. Reproduced with permission from Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
4.3Pieter de Oude Bruegel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Painted c. 1560, possibly a copy of Bruegel original. Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussels. Wikimedia commons
4.4Jean-François Millet, Women Carrying Faggots, c. 1858. Charcoal, gouache, paper. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Public domain. DT3296
4.5Jean-François Millet, Gleaners, 1857. Oil on canvas © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay)/Jean Schormans. Wikimedia commons
5.1Krupp factory, World War I. Photo Brown Bros. From The New York Times Current History of the European War (January–March 1915), 2, 889. Wikimedia commons
6.1William Gilpin, watercolour study, c. 1782–1804. Victoria and Albert Museum. O1040728
6.2Thomas Gainsborough, Man Holding a Claude Glass, undated. Graphite on paper. Yale Centre for British Art. B1975.4.24.
6.3John Martin, Belshazzar’s Feast, c. 1820. Half-size sketch held by the Yale Center for British Art. Google Art Project
6.4Reproduced from Descartes: The World and Other Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Figure 64, p. 154.
7.1William Blake, The First Book of Urizen, plate 12, c. 1794 (Bentley 22). Google Art Project
7.2Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920. Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
8.1James Gillray, Maniac Raving’s, or Little Boney in a Strong Fit, 1803. Library of Congress, Washington. Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-8795
8.2Plugboard (Steckerbrett) positioned at the front of an Enigma machine, below the keys. Wikimedia commons
9.2War room. Still from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove, 1964. Wikimedia commons
9.3Maxime Du Camp, Colossal monolith of Amenhotep III, Gournah, 1849–1851. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.235. www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.235
9.4James Ensor, Christ’s Entry into Brussels, 1888/1889. John Paul Getty Museum. www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/811/james-ensor-christ's-entry-into-brussels-in-1889-belgian-1888/
11.1Francis Bacon. Triptych, 1976. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2021. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates.
