Figure : Concept and Method.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lury, Celia.
Other Authors: Viney, William., Wark, Scott.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • 1: Introduction: Figure, Figuring and Configuration
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Figure
  • Part 2: Figuring
  • Part 3: Configuration
  • Part 4: Go Figure!
  • Coda
  • References
  • 2: The Work That Figures Do
  • Introduction
  • Auerbach: Figuration as Tropic Device
  • Foucault's Figures as Objects and Targets of Power
  • Haraway's Figurations as Spaces to Inhabit
  • An Agenda for the Study of Figuration: Figures and Affect
  • When Figures No Longer Hold
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3: In "The Cloud": Figuring and Inhabiting Media Milieus
  • Introduction: Media Figure
  • Figure, Inhabitation
  • Mediated Worlds: Milieus and Non-representability
  • In "The Cloud"
  • Conclusion: Indeterminate Linings
  • References
  • 4: Figure to Ground: Felicity Allen Interviewed by Celia Lury
  • 5: The Research Persona Method: Figuring and Reconfiguring Personalised Information Flows
  • Challenges to Understanding Personalised Information Flows
  • Situating the Persona as a Research Device
  • Configuring the Research Persona: Methodological Considerations
  • Three Examples of Research Personas
  • What the Research Persona Opens Up
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6: Engines, Puppets, Promises: The Figurations of Configuration Management
  • Introduction
  • Figuring Configuration Management
  • Smart Intentional Infrastructure
  • Figuring Infrastructure
  • Mythologies, or Why Figure Configurations?
  • References
  • 7: Figuring Molecular Relapse in Breast Cancer Medicine
  • Introduction
  • Background to 'An Exploratory Breast Lead Interval Study' (EBLIS)
  • Inhabiting Cancer's Figures
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 8: The Gardener and the Walled Garden
  • Introduction
  • A Letter, Jayne Smith (2019)
  • "I'd like to know what they've done with my stuff" (Jayne, 2018 interview).
  • Walled Gardens
  • Walled Garden 1: The Tissue Bank
  • Walled Garden 2: RADICAL Trial
  • Walled Garden 3: Patient Records
  • A Changing Landscape: from Walled Gardens to Data Flows
  • Grumpa
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9: Data Through Time: Figuring Out the Narrative Self in Longitudinal Research
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Longitudinal Studies and Quantitative Representations of Individuals' Lives
  • Reconstructing the Individual Within Longitudinal Cohort Studies
  • Big Stories and Small Stories
  • Section 2: Opportunities and Challenges for Longitudinal Research Provided by Self-tracking
  • Self-tracking and the 'Quantified Self'
  • The Potential Use of Self-tracking in Longitudinal Studies (Figure and Ground)
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 10: Figuring Out Exposure: Exploring Computational Environments and Personalisation in Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research
  • Introduction
  • 'Person-Centred Environments'
  • 'Experimental Entanglements': The Wearable Sensors Study
  • Configuring Environmental Health 'Pathways'
  • Negotiating Participation in Research
  • (Personal) Data Frictions
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 11: Figures of Speech: Stuck in the Middle with 'People Like You'
  • Introduction
  • Pronominalism
  • Figures of Speech
  • Stuck in the Middle
  • References
  • 12: Ubiquitous Surveillance and Data Selves
  • References
  • 13: Figuring Accompaniment: The Creation of Urban Spaciousness
  • Something Else Besides
  • Urban Gathering and Arrangements
  • Figuring the Extensions
  • Concluding the Surrounds
  • References.