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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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This article examines narrating with numbers in diagrams as a cultural technique that
facilitates the everyday handling of large, complex and flexible amounts of data. On the
basis of a flexible concept of narrating, I argue that diagrams open up narrative spaces.
I examine two different forms of diagrams to determine to what extent and in what form
abstract knowledge can be generated, processed and used in everyday narrating through
objectification and with technical assistance. Using the example of an information graphic
in a regional daily newspaper and the experimental numerical narrative practice of an artist,
I advocate for a cultural-analytical study of diagrammatic (everyday) practices. Such
an analysis reveals contemporary changes in connection with the assignment of meaning
to number-based knowledge in all areas of personal life in (digitalized) societies.
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