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Cache ● Shadow of the Tree
Buchtaufe cum tempore
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch statt. Das Buch ist auf Englisch publiziert.
Diagrams have long been used to describe, claim, and produce the relatedness of human individuals and groups, animals, and plants.
The tree form seems to have attained particular dominance for representing relatedness, both within specific domains of practice and in historical scholarship. This pertains, moreover, to representations of non-organismic entities that nevertheless draw from and flow back into the broad cultural history of the tree. And yet in fact a wide variety of diagrams have been devised, sometimes in connection with the tree, other times as an explicit alternative, or as a novel or idiosyncratic invention with no apparent connection to it.
This volume wishes to bring the variety of diagrammatic forms out from under the "shadow of the tree" while also taking seriously the persistent ubiquity of the tree and its implications.
Hrsg.: Eric Hounshell und Ruth Amstutz (Kulturwissenschaften und Wissenschaftsforschung, Univ. Luzern). Das Buch ist Teil des SNF Projekts, In the Shadow of the Tree.