E.-J. Marey's visual rhetoric and the graphic decomposition of the body

La imagen como conteo y el valor performativo de las cifras

“…Esta misma idea de traducir ciertos movimientos del cuerpo a imágenes que permitieran cuantificarlos, estuvo en la base de sus experimentos de cronofotografía iniciados en 1882. Todos sus métodos de observación, como afirma Douard (1995), estaban orientados a representar visualmente aquello que no podía ser observado directamente por el ojo humano. Esta fue, precisamente, una de las críticas que hizo Marey al cine en 1899:…”

Bloody technology: the sphygmograph in asylum practice

“…It was typically used to perfect or confirm a diagnosis already made by traditional percussion and auscultation (e.g. see Foster, 1866: 330), but – as a tool derived from experimental physiology – it was difficult not to be seduced by the charms of an instrument that ‘decompose[d] bodily motion into the smallest temporal and spatial segments possible’ (Douard, 1995: 186). This ‘wordless science’ (Daston and Galison, 1992: 81) had didactic use too, with the traces it produced capable of being printed in journal articles or distributed to colleagues.…”

Disciplinarity and the Rhetoric of Science: A Social Epistemological Reception Study

“…For example, the six articles in the cluster labeled Figure 1. Bibliometric coupling clusters for articles citing Gross, 1990or Gross, 1996 Biological Images include discussions of visual representation in the biological sciences and medicine (Crawford, 1996;Douard, 1995;Keirns, 1999) as well as arguments about scientific interpretation and authority using examples and illustrations drawn mainly from biology (Abir-Am, 1995;Allchin, 2003;Haack, 1998). The theme emerges after some exploration of the cluster's contents, and it is possible that a different reader would find other connections among the pieces grouped together by bibliographic coupling and thus give it a slightly different identifier.…”