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Introduction: Knowledge in the Making: Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2013

Christoph Hoffmann  and
Barbara Wittmann
Christoph Hoffmann
Affiliation:
University of Lucerne and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Barbara Wittmann
Affiliation:
University of Lucerne and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
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Argument

Drawing and writing number among the most widespread scientific practices of representation. Neither photography, graphic recording apparatuses, typewriters, nor digital word- and image-processing ever completely replaced drawing and writing by hand. The interaction of hand, paper, and pen indeed involves much more than simply recording or visualizing what was previously thought, observed, or imagined. Both writing and drawing have the power to translate concepts and observations into two-dimensional, manageable, reproducible objects. They help to develop research questions and they open up an interaction between the gathering of phenomena and the formation of theses. Related to the manifold studies of representational activities in the sciences and the humanities, this topical issue tries to refine our understanding of the capacities of drawing and writing as research techniques; i.e. as productive epistemic practices. In particular the contributions address three aspects: the material conditions and configurations of the “scene of drawing and writing,” the involved procedures of production, and the languages of inscription.

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Science in Context , Volume 26 , Special Issue 2: Knowledge in the Making , June 2013 , pp. 203 - 213
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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