Problem Spaces: How and Why Methodology Matters

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Compulsion of Composition
	So, what is a problem space?
	Compositional methodology
	Becoming topological
	The structure of the book
	Some general comments
Part I Problem Spaces
1  What is a Problem Space?
	Approach 1: Dewey
	Approach 2: Simon
	The times of problem spaces
	Thinking context
		Approach 3: Haraway
		Approach 4: Jullien
	The methodological potential of the situation
		Approach 5: Appadurai
	Across
Part II The Epistemic Infrastructure
2  The Parasite and the Octopus
	1. Explicitation and literalization
	2. Representation, semiotics and cognition
	3. Observing the observed
	4. The geo-politics of methodology
	5. (Non-)Representation and/or participation
	Conclusion
3  Indexing the Human (with Ana Gross)
	Indicators of price
	Platformization
4  Platforms and the Epistemic Infrastructure
	Platformization
		1. The architectural
		2. The political
		3. The computational
		4. The figurative
		Conclusion
Part III Compositional Methodology
5  More than Circular
	From model systems to platforms: the case of classification
	Double trouble
		1. The natively artificial character of the empirical
		2. The ontological multiplicity of the epistemological object
	Transcontextualism
	Conclusion
6  Know-ability and Answer-ability
	The internalization of science?
	Interface effects
	Know-ability
	Interface control
	Answer-ability
	Conclusion
Conclusion: How and Why Methodology Matters
Notes
	Introduction
	1 What is a Problem Space?
	2 The Parasite and the Octopus
	3 Indexing the Human (with Ana Gross)
	4 Platforms and the Epistemic Infrastructure
	5 More than Circular
	6 Know-ability and Answer-ability
	Conclusion
References
	Artwork
Index
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