# Joachim Krausse (1998). *Information at a Glance. on the History of the Diagram*. : . > [!INFO] > Type:: [[article]] > Title:: Information at a Glance. on the History of the Diagram > Author(s): [[Joachim Krausse]] > Year:: 1998 > Tags:: > DOI:: > Citekey:: krausse_information_1998 > ZoteroURI:: [Open in Zotero: Information at a Glance. on the History of the Diagram](zotero://select/items/@krausse_information_1998) > ReviewedDate:: [[2023-09-23]] ## Citation ```latex [@krausse_information_1998] ``` ## Related ```dataview TABLE file.aliases AS "Title" FROM [[@krausse_information_1998]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ``` ## Summary - ## Annotation “As such, it supplements the technologies of the culture of writing and calculating and thus is an integral element in the repertoire of practices with which information is ordered and prepared in order to transmit and process it as economically as possible.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 3) “It is striking that the Greek word 'diagram' comes from the same root as the word 'diagnosis', and in fact in medicine we see particularly clearly to what extent diagnosis is dependent on diagrams,” (Krausse, 1998, p. 3) “In this history we find certain hierarchies perpetuated in the form of articulations of knowledge that privilege the written text over sets of figures, and the latter over visualisations, diagrams, maps and models.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 4) “There are large gaps to be closed here, that still exist between a general theory of signs, semiotics or semiology and special fields such as iconography or cartography, in spite of individual efforts.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 4) “Why is it only cartography that achieved the status of an autonomous and highly esteemed discipline?” (Krausse, 1998, p. 4) “'How can distant or foreign places and times be gathered in one place in a form that allows all the places and times to be presented at once, and which allows orders to move back to where they came from? Talking of power is an endless and mystical task; talking of distance, gathering, fidelity, umming up, transmission, etc., is an empirical one... Instead of using large-scale entities to explain science and technology as most sociologist of science do, we should start from the inscriptions and their mobilization and see how they help small entities to become large ones.'” (Krausse, 1998, p. 5) “MacKinder is indeed the first to have described the map as component of a complex cultural system in which the physical description of the world is not to be reflected without a central moment of the imagination.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 6) “he forestalls the misunderstanding that visualising is only a question of an accurate transcription of data” (Krausse, 1998, p. 6) “We learn less about the territory than we do about how this is seen and described, which characteristics were considered important and which yardstick of value was implemented.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 5) “The graphic inscriptions, diagrams, maps, networks become the conceptual model of transmission between technical constructions and the cerebral system.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 9) “the diagram is a 'mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form; although its functioning (...) can be conceived of as a purely architectural and optical system, it is actually a form of political technology that one can and must distinguish from its specific use. (...) The panopticon supplies the formula for this generalization. On the level of a simple mechanism, easy to understand, it programs the elementary functioning of a society entirely pervaded by disciplinary mechanisms.'” (Krausse, 1998, p. 10) “As social mechanisms, they are immanent as function diagrams in the objects.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 10) “The metaphorics of space and time is thus entirely in accord with the ancient and mediaeval philosophical tradition.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 22) “It is all the more surprising that the chart based on time coordinates was not established before kinematics, and only became wide­ spread with the Enlightenment.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 22) “Although the thermometer or thermoscope had been known since the beginning of the seventeenth century, the experiments in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were experiments on the new instrument rather than with it.” (Krausse, 1998, p. 22) ### Related ```dataview LIST FROM [[@krausse_information_1998]] and -"Plans" and -"resources" ```