Fantastic question, following this thread with eager interest! May I suggest some of my work as an account specific to design and architecture: My MIT dissertation was on graphs (trees, lattices, networks etc) as inscriptions in postwar design theory and early computer-aided design research. The book manuscript is still in progress so for something more contained than a dissertation, I am also sending a publicly available link to an article I just published on this topic in Nexus.

All best and hope you and yours are staying safe!

Theodora



Dear Colleagues,

 

A little query sent across the lockdowns and quarantines: Can anyone recommend scholarship on the tree-style diagrams that circulate both in computer science and a wide range of other fields, for example, genealogy, kinship? Is there any good work on the history of these diagrams, their intersection, and what they might say about possible links in styles of reasoning across fields that might, otherwise, seem remote?

 

Thanks for your thoughts,

b

 

 

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