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Philip Steadman's epilogue suggests that the copying of drawings (and its study) by anthropologists, psychologists, architectural students, and Surrealists is revealing not only of processes of diagrammatization but also of the fact that there is something ‘diagrammatic’ about the way in which designs are represented mentally, which affects how they are seen and altered when they are reproduced. The work of diagrams, not only as visual objects but also as mental processes, is shown by the articles in this special issue to play a central role in fields as diverse as psychoanalysis, anthropology, epidemiology, and biology. More often than not, the synergy between these fields is facilitated, and sometimes catalyzed, by shared diagrammatic practices. As the studies examined in the epilogue demonstrate, diagrams form a privileged visual field of interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange. But importantly, they also facilitate a way of information processing—what the editors of this special issue call ‘diagrammatic reasoning’—through which data are processed, presented, and reconfigured in clear and easily assimilated forms.
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Lukas Engelmann is a Chancellor's Fellow in History and Sociology of Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on the history of epidemics and epidemiology in the long twentieth century, and heis currently working on the history of epidemiological modeling. Recent publications include Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic (2018) and, co-authored with Christos Lynteris, Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Sanitation (MIT Press, 2020). E-mail: lukas.engelmann@ed.ac.uk
Caroline Humphrey is a social anthropologist who has worked in the USSR/Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, and India. Until 2010 she was Sigrid Rausing Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and she is currently a Research Director at the university's Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Recent publications include A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism (2013), co-authored with Hurelbaatar Ujeed; Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (2012), co-edited with Franck Billé and Grégory Delaplace; and Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands (2018). E-mail: ch10001@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Christos Lynteris is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. A medical anthropologist investigating epistemological, bio-political, and aesthetic aspects of infectious disease epidemics, he is the principal investigator of the Wellcome-funded project, The Global War Against the Rat and the Epistemic Emergence of Zoonosis. His recent publications include Ethnographic Plague: Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier (2016), Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary (2019), and, co-authored with Lukas Engelmann, Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Sanitation (MIT Press, 2020). E-mail: cl12@st-andrews.ac.uk