Peter A. Hall and Patricio Davila

Illustrated in full colour throughout

1. An Introduction to Critical Visualization
Defining the field
Looking at Visualization beyond Western Paradigms
Alternative Western perspectives: Distributed Cognition and Humanistic Approaches
2. Disruptive Histories
Positivism and Objectivity
A History of Progress
Critical Cartography: a 'Defining Moment'
A Few Examples: Not a Canon
- Haptic Visualization: the Quipu (1200-1532)
- Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship (1789)
- Polar Area Diagram (1859)
- Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802-1875)
- Data Visualization at the Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)
- Community-building with Isotype: Otto and Marie Neurath
Conclusion
Focus: Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018
3. Making Data
Qualitative and Quantitative Data
The Role of Categorization
Focus: Data4Change
- Keepiton
- Hear the Blind Spot
- Perceiving Yemen
4. Data and the Self
Taylorism Within?
Comic Critique
What is Normal?
Biometrics and Risk-Profiling
Challenging Norms
The Examined Life
Focus: Margaret Pearce and Michael Hermann, They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain's Travels in Canada, 1603-1616
5. Data and the City
Participatory planning: HECTOR
Focus: Heath Bunting: Status Project
6. Aesthetics and Representation
Aesthetics and Representation
Representation as Translation
7. Beyond Critical Visualization Practice