Written in collaboration with David Burrows, Dean Kenning and Mary Yacoob, Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice explores diagrams, diagramming and the diagrammatic across a range of disciplinary traditions and arts-led practices. Guided by Charles Sanders Peirce’s definition of diagram as an ‘icon of intelligible relations’, Drawing Analogies draws on its authors’ creative use of diagrams as artists, educators and arts researchers, fields of inquiry that bring the arts into alignment with other disciplines, most notably anthropology, critical theory, cybernetics, pedagogy, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and the physical and theoretical sciences. This range of disciplines is evident in the artists and writers discussed in the chapters: Francis Bacon, Gregory Bateson, Black Quantum Futurism, Salvador Dali, Gilles Deleuze, Phillipe Descola, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Walter Jakob Gehring, Hilma af Klint, Alfred Korzybski, Rosalind E. Krauss, Yayoi Kusama, Susanne Leeb, Jacques Lacan, Pauline Oliveros, Charles Saunders Peirce and George Widener. 

The book is available as Open Access here. The hardback edition can be purchased here.

Contents

Introduction: The Aesthetic Life of Diagrams

Part 1: Ontologies and Epistemes

Chapter 1: Invisible Machines: Psychoanalytic Imaginaries and Paranoid Critical Theory – John Cussans

Chapter 2: The Diagrammatic works of Hilma af Klint – Mary Yacoob

Chapter 3: Cosmo-Diagrams: Beyond the Bubble – David Burrows

Chapter 4: Deleuze’s Living Diagram Pt. 1: From Structural to Intensive Relations (the Biological Idea) – Dean Kenning

Part 2: Diagrams in Use

Chapter 5: Deleuze’s Living Diagram Pt. 2: From Structural to Nervous Analogy (Francis Bacon) – Dean Kenning 

Chapter 6: Intersections between Art, Diagrams, Time and Technology – Mary Yacoob

Chapter 7: This is Not a Diagram: Applying General Semantics to Contemporary Arts Pedagogy- John Cussans

Chapter 8: Auraltechnics: Towards Audio Diagrams – David Burrows

Conclusion: Allusive Devices

Chapter 8: Auraltechnics: Towards Audio Diagrams – David Burrows

Conclusion: Allusive Devices