The Arrow as Icon

In her paper The Arrow as Icon (available here), Helen Scalway travels around the questions raised for the constitution of ‘knowledge’ by the loaded and vexed icon of the arrow, as it is unthinkingly and reductively used in graphics software.

Interview transcript of Helen Scalway and Gail Davies in conversation. PDF.

This conversation was recorded in May 2012 as preparation for a joint contribution to the Knowledge/Value seminar series exploring the historical and emergent relationships between epistemology and value in the biosciences. It will form the basis of a seminar presentation at the third Knowledge/Value meeting at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in September 2012.

Conversations

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Fannin, M. (2015) ‘The spirit of Guattari?’ Dialogues in Human Geography July 2015 5: 172-176, doi:10.1177/204382061558779.

Last, A. (2012) Experimental Geographies Geography Compass 6 (12) 706–724,