Latour, Bruno. "Visualisation and Cognition: Drawing Things Together." Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture and Present, 6 (1986): 1-40
Citational Chain: Cited by Manovich in two different locations of Language of New Media, during his discussion of image-instruments and telecommunication (167, 169)
Focus: Latour discusses a number of key inventive moments in the mobilization of textual and imagistic technologies, focusing primarily on perspective, shifts in temporality/spatiality, persuasion and resistance.
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Implications: Latour reconceptualizes the historical evolution of technological development, shifting focus away from (a) "materialist" explanations that focus primarily on advancements in hardware/software and issues of access, and (b) "mentalist" mediations that, in his terms, exaggerate the role of the mind and the primacy of the human body in explanations of technological adaptation and assimilation. In place of these two problematic theories of development, Latour focuses on a number of innovations that accelerate and intensify the processes associated with "mobilization."
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